People say marijuana is addictive, and it causes individuals to try harder drugs, but truthfully marijuana is the drug sellers use to convince you to try harder drugs since it is not addictive. It is considered a very controversial topic today. Even though it has been highly discriminated in the past, and even now in the future, genuine facts about marijuana are ultimately coming out. The acceptable use of it in society today is only for medicinal purposes. Prehistoric physicians assorted the plant into medicines or teas as pain relievers and other minor illnesses. It was banned in more than 20 states by the 1930s, in 1970 it was placed in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because it had no known use for medicine, and in the 1950s the Narcotics Control Act and the Boggs Act began to give penalties for the possession of marijuana. However, today, twenty-nine states have decriminalized it, and ten are contemplating bills to legalize it. Currently, the states with the topmost possession restrictions are Oregon, California, Washington, and New Mexico. Ever since marijuana was legalized in Colorado, there was a 10.1 reduction in general crime, a decrease in violence, and with the reduction of