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/^t/Finally, legislation seems to be the best solution to the whole problem. Marijuana is smoked by 26 mln people in the USA only. Nobody knows the number of "grass smokers" in Poland, a country of 38.4 mln citizens but it must be very high. Prohibition is not a remedy at all. It would bring higher demand and in consequence a development of illegal drug production and trafficking. Everybody knows that prohibition of an alcohol and cigarettes would not prevent from their use. Why should the situation with marijuana be different? After all, legalization does not mean that "smoking" will be approved of. It only means that marijuana users will not be treated as criminals.