What do you think about legalizing marijuana?

Well I’m writing a paper and I thought I would just ask the best online community in the world what their views are on this topic. All answers are appreciated.

So I was thinking about this for some time now and I believe marijuana should be legalized. No I don’t smoke or do drugs but there are a lot of benefits that hemp has that many of us forget about (or what corporations/governments try to hide). It can be grown pretty much anywhere, can make the longest lasting clothes, can provide us paper (without even cutting down a single tree) and it can also make very good and effective medicine.

Pot is no more bad for your health than cigarettes or alcohol so why is it still illegal? Because more than half of the world manufacturers would go out of business! Everything is all about money so sad. We are moving so slowly, so slowly when we have all the tools. It’s just that someone will always lose money and this is one of the biggest reason we are advancing so slowly.

Anyways, I could go on but you get the idea. I would just love to hear your opinions. Should it be legalized? What do you think?