A Very Common Sense Way To Solve Our National Debt Problem

                Our countries financial crises is unimaginable! I've seen charts and comparisons to how much a trillion dollars is, but it is really unimaginable. Our countries debt will be its down fall if something major is not done. While all the folks up in Washington DC are debating and posturing trying to keep the folks back home pleased while groveling and prostrating themselves before their corporate sponsors and owners.
           I offer this very sane, very common sense way to balance the nation and the states budgets.
    Legalize Marijuana!~
          Now before you huff up and quit reading consider the following facts;
                 We spend 42 billion dollars a year trying to enforce drug laws.
                      40% of all drug cases are marijuana. We have been fighting this drug war with little or no success for decades while our streets become more and more unsafe. If marijuana was legalized not only would we save all that money but our court systems would be some what cleared up and our police could concentrate on violent criminals.
                  Around 100 million people have used marijuana in some form in the U.S.- some 25 million Americans smoked pot in the last year -  around 14 million Americans smoke pot on a regular basis.
    In Colorado there is a 14% tax on medical marijuana. Lets say each of these people spend a $100 a month on pot. ( From personal knowledge I think this is a VERY conservative number for a regular toker) That is $14 a month in taxes per person which multiplied out is 196 million dollars or 2 billion 352 million dollars in taxes to the US budget.
             Not only that..... your creating a whole new industry creating thousands of jobs which further stimulates the economy.
           There are no known cases of Marijuana  being unhealthy or harmful in any way in fact it might be useful in medicine, industry and might inspire and improve some peoples lives.