... committing a crime. Unfortunately the users are normally the people who get arrested. Non-violent drug users make up about half the amount of people in prison today. The state of Washington reported in May of 2000 that 70% of people in their local prisons were drug related. If marijuana was legalized, this would significantly cut down since marijuana is the highest used illegal drug ... dealers out of the picture and the buyers would not be committing any crime. The Rotterdam Police Department superintendent in Amsterdam says; "when there are no coffee shops" (a place where people go to...

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