Canada should legalize marijuana. Legal marijuana would have many positive effects on the country as a whole. If it’s possible to help many people, why aren’t we doing it? Indeed, Canada would have much to gain from legalizing marijuana. There are many beneficial factors in legalizing marijuana. If marijuana were to be legalized, the government could have much more control over the quality and production of it. It would be less likely to be laced with other drugs, which currently acts as a risk to subsequent addiction to the laced drug. Also, many drug dealers would be put out of business, and the police would have less dangerous drug busts. It would be less accessible to children for there wouldn’t be any “random guys on my street with weed” that are probably quite dangerous. For our safety, cannabis should be made legal. Legalizing marijuana would also have many benefits within the justice system. It being legal would decrease the amount of people in prisons drastically and this would save America approximately $1 billion dollars of tax payer money. The police could direct their focus on more serious cases and they would have more money to get better forensics equipment without it all being spent on costly trials. Thus, legal marijuana would make our police force more efficient and we'd be safer. Numerous countries, including our own, marijuana is already used for medical purposes. Annually, marijuana costs $107 billion; much of this includes costs for loss of productivity. Currently some patients who need marijuana aren’t able to access it. If we could help some of these patients who suffer needlessly, we could give better care and more money towards helping others with more serious illnesses, and also for developing a cure for cancer. Marijuana has many beneficial medical factors. To make marijuana legal would give our ongoing weak economy a boost and help many of the currently unemployed citizens. People could get jobs in the industry and support their families, thus homeless shelters would be a little less crowded. They would buy homes, so the housing market would go up and Canada would yet again become prosperous. The government would also benefit because they would receive mountains of tax and farm revenues. To help our economy in times of trouble, legalizing marijuana could be very helpful. It would be a good move to make marijuana legal in Canada for police, economy, medical and quality reasons. The arguments for legalizing marijuana are far greater than those against it. Its illegality should therefore be reconsidered in Canadian parliament. IT CAN ONLY BE 3 PARAGRAPHS LONG :'( YES ITS ABOUT LEGALIZING MARIJUANA, but it was only supposed to be 3 paragraphs andI didn't know that :(