Persuasive Essay On Marijuana Legalization

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My earlier draft of my outline was very broad where I basically decided to have an introduction with two to three paragraphs which was going to be about only one page. Also, I decided to include two different events on my current problem, marijuana legalization. The two different events that talks about how marijuana legalization had created problem for youth in Colorado where event # 1 discuss about how marijuana legalization has impacted many high school students, how the kids in Colorado has to pay the price of passing the laws. Along, with the event #1, I decided to include some sources about how marijuana legalization laws was passed step by step like a timeline which contributed to pass the current problem. Based on my event #1, I decided …show more content…
“I will argue that the two of the most significant historical factors that have contributed to increase in our use of marijuana drug at high school was how the marijuana legalization was passed and what was the main reason behind for passing the law for adult over 21 +, and after the marijuana legalization has passed in Colorado, how it has impacted the high school students in their career. Therefore, before I examined how the marijuana legalization has affected the high school students in their career, I will first explained how the marijuana legalization was passed and what was the main reason behind passing the law of legalizing marijuana for adult over 21+ in Colorado.” This is the one of the way I decided to advance my thesis where I showed these are my two main points that contributed to my current problem which I want to argue in my

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