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Why did the U.S. government legalize marijuana?

According to the data, more than 50 million Americans have used drugs or abused psychotropic substances in the past year. The drug epidemic brings a series of social problems. The analysis believes that multiple factors such as interest groups, bureaucracy, partisan struggle, and social culture in the United States are intertwined, leading to the intensification of the drug problem. Data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a few days ago shows that the number of deaths due to drug overdose in the United States is growing rapidly. Between September 2020 and September 2021, about 104,000 Americans died from drug use, compared to 52,000 in 2015. Bobby Mukamara, president of the board of directors of the American Medical Association, called on the U.S. government to take action to revise regulations that lead to drug abuse, "or more people will die and more families will suffer avoidable tragedies." "America's drug epidemic is more deadly than e...