Marijuana plays a significant role in America’s population today. According to Ed Rosenthal and Steve Kubby, approximately one third of the United States population uses marijuana or have tried it before. Marijuana also known as weed and cannabis should be legalized in the United States to decrease crime rate, increase job opportunities and increase economical growth. There are many benefits to legalizing marijuana. Legalizing marijuana can decrease the overall crime rate in America. Legalizing marijuana will put less people in prison for possession of the substance. This is helpful to overcrowded prisons because it would open up more cells for criminals with more serious offenses like rape, murder, and robbery. Legalizing marijuana would also force marijuana dealers off the street. Also, allowing police officers to focus on investigating and arresting criminals with serious offenses. According to Sallie Dawson, marijuana was studied and proven to relieve anxiety and depression. Marijuana shows no sign of lung cancer as cigarettes do. It was proven that a person that smoked cigarettes and marijuana is less likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer than one that smokes cigarettes only. It also helps people suffering from aids, cancer, epilepsy and chronic pain. Marijuana does so because it relaxes the body it gives relief from nausea and increases appetite. Marijuana reduces muscle spasms and relief from chronic pain. Since marijuana helps the American people and not hurt them, then it should be legalized. Marijuana is the safest therapeutic substance. Alcohol is legal in the United States, but is far more dangerous than marijuana because it plays a key factor to destroying a human liver. Marijuana does not break down the human body system, but relaxes it and helps the immune system. Doctors would be able to treat patients more efficiently by prescribing marijuana. Legalizing marijuana would open more job opportunities. Legalizing marijuana would allow the United States to open factories that would allow the growth of hemp plants, which marijuana comes from. The United States can then manufacture many products from the plant. According to Richard Sepulveda, some of the products that can be produced from the plant are plastic, biomass fuel and cloth. The first pair of Levi blue jeans were actually made from the hemp plants because of its durability and flexibility to work with. Legalizing marijuana would also help America conserve oil. One major way America uses majority of oil is in gasoline. It would help conserve oil because it would allow the United States to use the hurd of the hemp plant to create biomass fuel. The process in turning the hurd into a fuel is called destructive distillation. The fuel is then referred to as a biomass