The United States should end the criminalization of marijuana, which costs money to enforce, and make money instead by taxing it like cigarettes and alcohol.

My opinion is that the criminalization of marijuana is pathetic. 

People were against marijuana because they were afraid, racist, and greedy.

People were afraid because they believed that marijuana was the devil and that it causes people to become insane and belligerent. They believed that marijuana will corrupt the American population and that it will be the death of them all. 

The only reason why they believe that is because of racism. Marijuana was distributed to the United States from mormons that came back from Mexico. Before it wasn't such a big deal, but ignorant legislators started to blame on the Mexicans and the Negroes when people started becoming addicted to it. That was when the all-out war against Marijuana arise. 

Legislators who hated Mexicans and Negroes did their best to criminalize them by saying that Marijuana made them violent and insane. By doing that, they also made a lot of money just distributing fake information, called Yellow Journalism. Because of Yellow Journalism, people all over the country started believing that Marijuana was evil and started hating the innocent drug. 

Why Marijuana is Illegal - This article shows the real reasons why Marijuana is illegal and it agrees to my opinion.

Ignorance is bliss.