What are the negatives about legalizing marijuana?

Question by trailblazer: What are the negatives about legalizing marijuana?
I am a conservative, but I suppose I could be considered a libertarian on this issue. When the government starts a prohibition on drugs, it strengthens drug running gangs and terrorist leaders worldwide.

Marijuana is much less harmless than meth, cocaine, or heroin. People who want to buy marijuana will buy it anyway, and they will buy it from shady people opposed to buying it from a safer source such as a pharmacy, if it were legalized.

Best answer:

Answer by gustooch
it should be legal.

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