Legalizing Marijuana

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This paper serves as an evaluative essay that advocates decriminalizing marijuana use and possession. The writer discusses such legalization of marijuana from the utility, virtue and justice perspectives. The writer examines the state versus the individual in this regard. The costs involved in prohibiting marijuana are also explored in this article.

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"British philosopher, John Stuart Mill proclaimed more than a century and a half ago that the state has no right interfering in individual behavior that might harm the individual, but bring no harm to others. Over himself over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. Despite Mill's liberal view, the conservative approach to marijuana control, disregards such philosophy spending billions of dollars per year to enforce the prohibition of marijuana. Such an approach causes high levels of economic and social costs that are ... "

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