While the USA spends approximately $10 billion dollars a year to keep Marijuana off the street, the State of California generates revenue of 14 billion annually with production of legalized medicinal Marijuana allowing government to collect tax revenue on legalized sales. THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, has the ability to reduce nausea and vomiting besides alleviating pre-treatment anxiety. Moreover, marijuana helps in improving appetite of patients afflicted with AIDS-related wasting. The drug is also useful in reducing muscle spasms and relieving depression in pain associated with multiple sclerosis. In addition to that, marijuana extend to the treatment of health diseases such as alcohol abuse, spinal cord injuries, cancer, bipolar disorder, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, migraines, and fibromyalgia. Medical marijuana is also useful to treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep apnea, Parkinson’s disease, sickle-cell disease, and psoriasis.

     Legalizing marijuana would be a regulated and legal market, which would actually reduce marijuana sales and use among teenagers. In fact Smoking marijuana has fewer dangerous effects on the society than legal things such as cigarette and alcohol. Marijuana legalization laws would minimize the flow of money to criminal gangs that would bring billions of dollars for productive economic development.