That was an excellent read man, with many excellent points that people often don't consider.

However, and I'm sorry if I'm being a wet blanket here, but I have to disagree with one point. Many people have argued that marijuana is illegal because the government can't tax it, but this doesn't really make sense in my mind. Tobacco, which is heavily taxed, is a plant just like marijuana that can be grown by anyone if they wished to do so. Alchohol is also quite easy to brew in your own home, I know this because my dad has brewed many a bottle of wine, and my uncle has brewed his own beer.
Furthermore, it's quite taxable because the majority of tax-money from it wouldn't come from growers, but from buyers. Legal cannabis shops would become very popular and every customer who buys a joint can have his 40 cents tacked on for big brother, just like with buying cigarettes.

Overall, this nation's economy would see a major contribution from legalized cannabis, a small drop in medical expenses since people have a healthier alternative, and a significant drop in organized crime revenue that would lose it's cannabis-based profits (the Hell's Angels in Canada get 80% of their profits from selling weed).

Once again, this is an excellent essay. Though you may want to cite specific scientific studies to support your claims rather than just state them as fact and move on, otherwise people will be guaranteed to question the validity of your "hippy" claims. Here's some resources which should help you:

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2006/o...arijuana/?news

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...5-healthNews-3

http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano...entano-p10.htm

http://www.cannabishealth.com/site/i...id-system.html (general physiological information)

http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2005...ue9/ne-mj.html

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/...-marijuana.htm

http://paranoia.lycaeum.org/marijuan...ogy.html#myth5

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065313/html/

http://www.parliament.the-stationery.../151/15101.htm

http://www.freedomactivist.net/canna...ml#cannabidiol

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n307/a10.html

http://www.drugtext.org/sub/marmyt1.html

http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html

http://cannabisnews.com/news/22/thread22154.shtml

http://www.csdp.org/publicservice/mjtruth.htm

http://www.whitman.edu/biology/Stupr...gB/physio.html

http://www.cannabisfacts.ca/

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...564&query_h1=1