[420 Girl]

The argument for legalizing marijuana included using the drug medicinal purposes, while the opposing argument included the potential health risks of smoking marijuana.

Although the debaters share very different views about the use drug, both agree money is wasted jailing people for possession.

“There’s five hundred billion dollars a year in illegal drugs that would not exist if these were legal and available to adults in pharmacies and liquor stores, all the money could be going to the government and established corporations and paying taxes, instead it goes to criminals who use the money to corrupt our system,” said Hager.

“My argument of course is Steve gives all these intellectual sounding arguments of why marijuana should be legal, he leaves out the one reason most of these kids want it to be legal, they don't give a damn about hemp, they want to get stoned and not be hassled by the cops.. So my argument is very simply the potential negative side effects ain’t worth it for another recreational drug of choice,” said Stutman.

The two men have become friends after debating the issue for nearly eight years.

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