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During the 1920’s, there were many opinions and arguments about banning alcohol in the United States. In consequence to that, alcohol was made illegal in the U.S. but it only lasted about thirteen years. It caused too many crimes and people always found a way to obtain it; they could go to “speakeasies” or even make their own. Eventually, congress and the rest of the nation decided that banning alcohol was actually hurting the U.S. rather than making it a better nation so they decided to repeal the amendment, making alcohol legal again. Nowadays, there are set rules for alcohol but the new issue is about drugs. Should we make some drugs legal or should we leave it as is? People all over the world are using drugs, such as marijuana, but they are doing it illegally. They are selling it on the streets and even in schools but no one has made a point to enforce that it is illegal. Sure they go to jail and have other punishments, but that won’t stop others. Just like in the 1920’s, people were drinking alcohol illegally and some of them did got caught but look what happened. Alcohol was made legal again because everyone was still drinking it and it was just causing too much trouble. There has been controversy about