You cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely).
This whole war on drugs thing feels like a game of smoke and mirrors...
Legalization would greatly reduce deaths caused by external factors and would free the government to actually take care of the addicts as they actually need.
On the other hand, antibiotics, which should be controlled tightly, gets overlooked.
1 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516...
Edit: formatting.
Edit II: typos.
Edit III: pointing out antibiotics getting overlooked.
Well the one thing we shouldn't do is give criminals a lucrative monopoly on the market, which is exactly what criminalization does and creates a whole host of negatives for society.
It is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history. In 2016 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War and car crashes, gun violence, and HIV/AIDS ever did in a single year. In total, more than 170 people are estimated to die from overdoses every day in the US, and most of the deaths are linked to opioids."