Figured this would be a good place to put this

It was in some parts of europe until 2 years ago. 
Now its legal but  well  guess what 75g of stevia powder (Nevella) of which actually 3% is stevia and the rest is 97% maltodexrin etc is like 3€+ (us$ 4+)
1KG of suggar is like 60 cents here.


Correct me if I am wrong but when a cop is using his light to check your eyes he will see that something is wrong with you right? Are you unable to drive before your eyes show it?

"The immediate effects of taking marijuana include rapid heart beat, disorientation, lack of physical coordination, often followed by depression or sleepiness. Some users suffer panic attacks or anxiety."
(In case someone doesn't click the link, that's the first sentence.)

That site is absolutely littered with lies and they provide zero sources. You asked to be convinced yet ignore every single piece of information that goes against your belief. You mention again that there is no point in using it, yet as people have shown, there is. Many people with nerve and muscle damage or chronic pains rely on medical marijuana to be able to function in society. Proper use of marijuana does not make you lazy either.

"If it's illegal, just don't do it"
That mentality behind this statement scares me.

I linked it before, but here it is again. A great start to begin learning about marijuana.

Karma is a fat cow bitch.

Because it's magic.

No seriously, I'm convinced that if you legalize there will be less criminal activities around it. In my country it's legalized at coffee shops and you see that there is less criminal activities around this drug. The only mistake our country has with this, is that growing cannabis (more then personal use) is illegal. So this means that large scale productions are still in criminal hands. 
Also in terms of healthy or not, from what I know Cannabis is more healthy then Alcohol etc. The most lethal part in smoking cannabis is the tabacco which is used to smoke it!!

from a person that never touched this stuff, i think it should be legal... reason 1 - tax money (as a consumer), i pay tax to buy bread, milk, water, etc you know where i am going with this, so why should people be able to spend money on this and don't pay tax? 2 - crime, black market, again no tax (as a dealer) 3 - quality control for illegal stuff doesn't exist, the other way around, FDA is is all over it. etc...
i could write some more reasons, but its basically this...

OP sounds like every other person again marijuana, full of mis-information and spreading FUD. Most of what you said was flat wrong, and typical sterotypes devoid of any fact. Alcohol is way worse and prohibition doesn;t work. People will do it anyway.

Now I don't advocate it and it certainly means one more drug that teenagers will abuse to hell and back. To me, external drugs on a regular basis just ain't natural to the body.

But economically, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars and man power to police the drug when it would be more economical to legalize it and devote your funding/manpower to more heavy drug policing.

Another pro: weed makes you docile. Millenial protesting and bitching will evaporate overnight. Civil Unrest will be far less of a problem.

Those are my core two points. Finite funding better suited to policing worse drugs, and helps control civil unrest.

As far as I'm concerned, everything should be legal unless there's a very good reason for it to be illegal. I don't think there's a 'very good reason' to have marijuana illegal, thus it should be legal.

so many reasons why it needs to be legalized. People have already mentioned this, the OP seems to think that legalization means that marijuana use would be encouraged. It certainly should not and i have no problem with people and governments discouraging the use of marijuana while legalizing it at the same time. The reason it should be legalized is because the ban does not work, and causes far more problems than it fixes.

If they can't legalize it they need to decriminalize it. Nobody should be going to jail over marijuana use, it's a massive waste of money in so many ways. Decriminalization is more politically do-able and would fix most of the problems.