First, it is time legalize the recreational and medicinal use of marijuana, a safer, none addictive, alternative to alcohol and prescription opioids. The ban on marijuana has done nothing but halt the development of new medical treatments, created an alluring forbidden fruit, fueled a black market that drives illegal immigration and gang related activity. and over works law enforcement and prisons by accounting for the overwhelming majority of drug related arrests and imprisonments. The arguments for ending prohibition of marijuana are the same successful arguments for ending the prohibition of alcohol with the added benefit of reducing the pain of the opioid/heroin crisis. Link