I am a law abiding citizen, who pays hard earned tax dollars to the state and I want a chance to be heard. This letter will be representing millions of citizens who want to legalize smoking marijuana responsibly. A question that I will state is why alcohol is legal and marijuana is not. Marijuana has many different uses such as medicine, paper, clothing, protein, and could be used a highly taxed product, in which the government could make a tremendous amount of money. I ask the state of California to experiment with legalizing the use of marijuana, since it obtains the perfect environment to cultivate marijuana and the cost of growing should be relatively cheap.
             Marijuana has earned a terrible reputation and is now known as a "drug." Now lets compare alcohol to this so-called "drug." First, Marijuana has medical uses such as a treatment for glaucoma and treatment for AIDS patients to regain their appetites. Alcohol has no medical effects. Second, there are more than tripled the amount of drunk-driving accidents then marijuana-influenced drivers. Lastly, people die from alcohol poisoning everyday; till this day not a single person ever overdosed off of marijuana. America wastes billions of dollars in law enforcement resources, and destroys the lives and careers of millions of our citizens. Yet marijuana remains the recreational drug of choice for millions of Americans.
             There have been legal tests done to marijuana, which have proven that marijuana is a safe medicine if not abused. Proposition 215 states, doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana to people that could benefit from it. We can see clearly that marijuana is not a harmful drug at all if taken responsibly. Just last week, studies were done in Britain stating, if the doctors could legalize marijuana they would but since the law won't allow it they can't. Wouldn't there be less crime, more jail space, tax money spent on more important thi...