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Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

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Janelle Munoz
Mrs.Mendez
English II
2 March 2018 Legalizing Marijuana When will marijuana be legalized just like alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs? In this modern day, people are smoking marijuana like never before they don’t care if it’s not legalized. Many people break the law because of marijuana, why not just legalize and make it less of a problem? If they legalize it they can make the same law with alcohol, where you can’t buy it until you’re 21 years old. Alcohol has been proven that it is more dangerous than marijuana, there have been lots of accidents due to drunk driving and there haven’t really been any accidents with people smoking pot while driving. A study in 2009 by U.S. Department of Health and Human Studies published that 69.7 million Americans are current users of tobacco products, 15 million Americans abuse alcohol, and only 4.2 million Americans abuse Marijuana. “1,000 people every day die from smoking-related illnesses, 550 die from alcohol-related accidents and diseases, and less than 20 dies of drug-related causes” (marijuanaToday.com). This proves that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than marijuana but yet they are legal and marijuana is not. Marijuana has been here since the 1800s and it was legalized at some point back then but for some reason, it became illegal, what’s wrong with it being legalized just how it was back then. Reasons, why marijuana should be a legal drug, is because the addictive potential it can have on people,
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