“If marijuana is legalized, health care costs will rise, worker productivity will fall, and intoxicated drivers will kill tens of thousands of people every year.”

“Ok, so why is it OK to consume alcohol, then?”

“Well, alcohol is legal.”

“By the year 2000, arrests on misdemeanor charges of smoking marijuana in public view (MPV) had reached a peak of 51,267 for the city, up 2,670% from 1,851 arrests in 1994. In 1993, the year before broken windows policing was implemented, a New York City police precinct made, on average, 10 MPV arrests per year; by 2000, the police precincts were averaging 644 MPV arrests per year—almost 2 arrests per day per precinct. These misdemeanor MPV arrests accounted for 15% of all felony and misdemeanor arrests in New York City in 2000.”

Up 2,600% in 6 years! 15% of all criminal arrests in the year 2000. Insane.