Marijuanna Law Just Creates Criminals

In "Marijuana Law Just Creates Criminals" Hakeem Jeffries points out how cope and armed security spends tons of money arresting people for marijuanna posession.
One example from the article is when it states, "New York spends about $75 million on arresting people for recreational marijuanna posession."
Another example that supports my answer is when it states, "But what many people dont know is that the state decriminalized this offense more than 30 years ago, making private posession of less than 25 grams of marijuanna a violation punishable by a $100 fine."
I found this article almost interesting because many people argue back and forth about how marijuanna is illegal and that the law should state it as legal. Although in some countries it has already been made legal and there isn't a problem.
Another reason that i found this article interesting is because of how much money the government uses to lock someone up with marijuanna posession when it's far more serious situations occuring in the world.
I feel as though that if the cops and government put in as much effort into other situations other than drug posession then the world would be a better place and there wouldn't be as much violence going on.
One example that supports my statement is gun posession, I feel as though it is very easy to buy a gun illegally off of someone when it shouldn't be even thought of being easy.
Another example that supports my statement is gang violence. Gang violence has the highest rate of occuring right now, many families and people get hurt either because they're not apart of the "gang family" or because they rep another gang and steps into another gang's "territory".