The Time to Legalize is now It seems that every new group of youth turning mature fights for some type of right. That being said, I believe this generation’s fight has been for the legalization of Marijuana. Although this has been a controversy for many years now, in the more recent past there have been great strides toward legalization. The first great step was making marijuana legal for medical use, making marijuana legal for the first time since the early 1900’s. In the last year two states, Colorado and Washington, have completely legalized the drug. Marijuana should be legal because it is not harmful but helpful, could help boost the United States economy greatly, and is a very resourceful plant in multiple ways. Among the people in the United States there is a misconception that marijuana kills brain cells. A documentary called “The Union” goes into detail about how there has only been one experiment, done by the Untied State Government, which results made people conclude the drug indeed kills brain cells. They explained that in 1974 before the actual experiment was released to the public, it was said the scientist were giving the monkeys thirty marijuana joints a day, and after ninety days the monkeys died from severe brain damage. The actual experiment was not released to the public until six years later. When the real experiment was finally released it was found that scientists were actually pumping sixty-three extremely potent marijuana joints into the monkeys within a five-minute time span using a gas mask. This process was suffocating the monkeys. Filling the gas mask with marijuana smoke limits the oxygen the monkeys would have been able to inhale. Going five minutes on limited oxygen was the cause of losing brain cells and giving the monkeys’ brain damage, not the marijuana (The Union). This experiment was an attempt to scare people from using,