With deep recessions, local economies could benefit from jobs that are created with the cultivation of the marijuana as well as the commercial selling that would be placed in the communities.
This is not an easy task since a few states have done this before particularly with states having trouble pushing away criminalization. In addition, to legalization local police departments can concentrate on other type of laws that are being broke since the worry of people selling drugs or smoking in public will be reduced drastically. There is also cause