Marijuana law just creates criminals

In the article "Marijuana law just creates criminals" by Hakeem Jeffries talks about how it’s expensive and racist to arrest people for small amounts of marijuana. As Jeffries points out to help that cause is "50,000 people was arrested in 2011 for small amounts of marijuana, the majority of them were black and Latino." New York City spends about 75$ million dollars a year arresting people for marijuana possession. Most of the people are being stop under the "stop and frisk" policy which can be unjustified. It’s really a waste of time and the police have better things to worry about then people smoking weed. The people who are getting arrested didn't have it out in the open, and wasn't selling it so I don't see the problem.The problem is not going away but I'm not saying we should encourage it. As Jeffries say "Despite this change in law, arrests for small quantities of marijuana over the last decade have skyrocketed, with more than 400,000 people arrested and unceremoniously run through the criminal justice system. Marijuana possession is now the No. 1 arrest category in New York." I think they probably going to legalize it soon away, they already have certain laws about it so just save the money we could use it. Its getting legalized in other states recently like Colorado and Washington.