Decrease the People in Jail

Everyone knows now a days that the jails are over populated with criminals. What a lot of people don't know is that a lot of those criminals are in there for smoking, selling or having possessiong of marijuana. By using logic you can figure out that these "criminals" will meet actual criminals and might get involved with real crimes like robbery or murder. If the government makes marijuana legal, the jails will not be over crowded. Also it might stop these criminals that sell marijuana from getting involved in anything worse then that.
The time that you can go to jail for varies in each state, you will receive a fine no matter what and depending on the amount of weed you have you could go to jail for a year. That year away from school and your family would destroy a lot of people at a young age. It is very difficult to come back and get a good job with having gone to jail for a year no matter what the circumstance. Now if marijuana is legalized more people in the United States would have the opportunity to get better jobs then flipping burgers at Mcdonald's or working the drive through at KFC.

I believe if the United States government legalizes marijuana it will help all of America with jobs and will make the people that work at jails have a easier job. This is because the jails will have less people, therefore will be easier to handle. The government needs to priorterize what they believe. With all of the United States and the world trying marijuana, why is it still illegal here. We are the country of freedom, therefore if everyone is already using their freedom to use it even with the penalty of going to jail, it would be better to be made legal than send young men to jail.