Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Argument of Definition
Marijuana should be made legal because it is in fact a helpful medical treatment, rather than a harmful drug. I dont agree with this, obviously if I am thinking about being in the FBI, but I thought it would be easy to understand. The next step after finding a topic is to research it, which the most interesting research I found was many facts and statistics about the harmful effects of alcohol versus marijuana, which are significantly less. You can craft your claim of this argument by defining how marijuana helps in medical conditions, more than it harms when used in non medical ways. It can swing both ways, like the 2 pictures of patriotism in the chapter. You can show the medical affects, or you can show one of those "above the influence" commercials that makes weed look really bad.
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Oh, wow! Clever idea to use this for your example! I didn't even think about this one. Now that you have mentioned it, the legalization of marijuana (or not) and if it is a drug or helpful does make perfect sense as an argument "definition".
I agree with Shannon, nice choice of argument of definition. Marijuana is something that most people equate with a highly addictive and illegal drug. Others could define it as an important ingredient for fighting cancer. Of course, Rastifarians believe it is holy. Excellent choice of an unclear definition.
I think this is very interesting, and I know a lot of people are probably interested in this topic. An argument like this really does require a lot of definition as to whether it is really helpful or harmful. How exactly are we defining those words, and in what context?
Weed is a drug, there's no debate about that, but so is tobacco and alcohol. The reason they are legal is that the government can tax the others. If weed was legalized it would be too big and unstructured resulting in money the government wouldn't get. Regardless of medical benefits.
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