Persuasive Speech On Legalizing Marijuana

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Marijuana is a very outstanding and diverse issue in todays’ society. There are plenty of opinions and assumptions about how marijuana affects you and how it can affect your life, but are those assumptions true? Have you researched the topic and truly understood why marijuana was even illegal in the first place? Marijuana can benefit our country in so many economic and medical ways. I’m here to inform you about why medical marijuana should be legalized.
The history of marijuana becoming illegal all started in the early 1900’s after the Mexican revolution. Many Mexicans immigrated to the United States and brought “marihuana” with them. As marijuana became a more recreational thing for the Mexicans to do, the people in the southern states weren’t