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Many Americans feel that marijuana is helping fund the war on terror, but making a war on drugs and keeping marijuana illegal has not stopped millions of Americans from smoking pot everyday. So what is the answer?

First, why is marijuana still illegal in many states? In the 1930’s William Randolph Hearst, who had significant financial interests in the timber industry testified to congress on the evils of marijuana, saying things like it make people insane and commit acts of cannibalism? At this time very few even knew what it was and to stop people from going insane Congress decided to make it illegal.

The truth is many paper manufacturers were thinking of changing from using trees to hemp to make paper because it was cheaper and easier to grow and better for the environment, and Hearst stood to loose millions so he used his influence and testimony to help get marijuana banned in the USA.

So now that we know why it was made illegal, we can realize that not only would making it legal in the entire United States would stop terrorists from smuggling it into the USA, but it would give us another option to cutting down of millions of trees every year for paper products that can be made better from hemp.

The hemp plant has thousands of uses that we are unable to exploit because of its illegal status in many states.

During WWII hemp was used for the rigging on parachutes as well as rope and material for uniforms.

Nowadays marijuana can be used to relieve pain and some of the effect of cancer treatments and old age. It has also been proven to slow down the spreading of Alzheimer’s, and relieve the pressure behind the eyes from glaucoma. It also helps relieve migraine headaches and the side effects of cancer treatment.

But until the United States realizes how much money can be made from legalizing it, it will remain illegal in many states.

Eventually the USA will realize that the best way to stop the flow of money out of the country is not to ban marijuana, but to enter the market and compete.

If the USA as a whole legalized marijuana like the Netherlands and many other European countries have done the government would make not only billions in taxes from the sales of marijuana, but the economy would boom from all the tourism that it would bring in from all over the world.

The truth of the matter is that legalization in all of the US is inevitable. The attitude of people has changed so drastically over the last 50 years, that eventually when the younger generations start to take over marijuana will eventually become legal because they understand the truth, and that is banning something only makes the market for it stronger.