Well, what do you know, the world didn't crumble in on itself when Marijuana became legalized. In fact, it seems like it has done the exact opposite. According to an article from Think Progress, which cited sources from the Marijuana Policy Group, and other state fiscal analyses, legalization of Marijuana was actually an economic boom.

In Colorado, legal Marijuana created roughly 18,000 new full-time jobs and about $2.4 billion in economic activity in the state's economy last year. Legal Marijuana is a stronger economic driver than 90 percent of other industries in Colorado.

When you combine the dollars that customers spend and the money businesspeople invest in their crops and shops, pot is generating more wealth and activity than almost anything else on a pound-for-pound basis. For every dollar spent on legal Marijuana, the industry is generating between $2.13 and $2.40 in economic activity.

This tells me two things. One, people apparently love their weed. Maybe I should have been less afraid when I was younger trying to hide it from everyone in the known universe, I should have shared. Second, the federal government needs to take Marijuana off of their lists of schedule one narcotics and legalize it on a federal level.

There are already five more states that have legalization on the ballot and public opinion is rapidly changing on the subject. Isn't it time we grow up as a society and realize that this is a non-issue now?

We have a plethora of drugs that are already legal, including alcohol which is the deadliest drug. A drug that ruins people's lives each and every day. The biggest drug problem that is affecting our society today is legal prescription opioids. Our doctors and the pharmaceutical industry are killing us, not legal Marijuana.

While the conversation of drug and alcohol abuse does not end and begin with Marijuana. What this report does say is that perhaps we were all wrong about the stigma behind Marijuana. Marijuana, the thing that society told us was bad, is, in fact, having a positive impact in Colorado on a large scale.

We need to look at the real issues having severe impacts on people. Instead, we rehash old arguments that have been going on since the 1960s. It's time to move on. It's time to legalize Marijuana nationally.