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There are simply two key perspectives regarding the debate surrounding marijuana: pro-legalization and anti-legalization.
2. What are the major points of contention or major disagreements among these perspectives?
There is a lot of disagreement surrounding the economic and health benefits of marijuana between the two sides of this issue. Also, there is a lot of dispute over whether or not marijuana is less or more dangerous and addictive than legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco.
3. What are the possible points of agreement, or the possible common ground between these perspectives?
The only real common ground between the two perspectives surrounding legalization is that both sides are attempting to ensure the overall safety and prosperity of America and its citizens.
4. What are the ideological differences, if any, between the perspectives?
In general, supporters of legalization tend to be more liberal, while individuals who oppose legalization tend to be more conservative.
5. What specific actions to their perspectives or texts ask their audience to take?
The main goal of texts written from either perspectives is to inform their audience to about marijuana so that they would vote, if given the opportunity on either a state or national level, for or against marijuana, depending on the viewpoint of a particular text's author.
6. What perspectives are useful in supporting your own arguments about the issue? Why did you choose these?
The perspective that I feel will be most helpful in supporting my own argument, which is in favor of legalizing marijuana, will be those from the anti-marijuana side of this debate. For instance, the opposing thoughts and opinions of concerned parents, conservative individuals, and hesitant elderly Americans on marijuana will be useful for providing me with a clear basis of the claims that I will need to disprove, using factual and convincing evidence from the pro-legalization side of this debate, in order for more Americans to see the benefits of legalization.
7. What perspectives do you think will be the greatest threat to your argument? Why so?
The same anti-weed perspectives that I claimed would be be helpful in supporting my arguments about the issue could also be my greatest threats. If the earlier mentioned concerned parents, conservative individuals, and hesitant elderly Americans or people who see validity in that perspective's claims remain strongly resistant to legalization in every aspect of the debate surrounding marijuana, even after reading my argument, then I have ultimately failed at achieving my purpose.
Reflection:
I read and commented on the "Analyzing Context" posts by Ann Emilie and Breanna. Both of my peers performed really good analysis of the context of their controversial topics. One thing that Breanna's post taught me was that the perspectives of a debate do not have to be so black and white. Therefore, I could possibly incorporate a hybrid perspective in my argument to further appeal to my audience and express my ideas.
When I think of the debate on marijuana I think of the two points of disagreement that you stated, those being the economic and health benefits. I found it very interesting that you said that you could benefit from those in opposition of your side. I would be very interested in seeing how you would do this. It is a very interesting idea that had not crossed my mind.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about the marijuana debate how polarized it seems to be, mostly due to misinformation. That is why I agree with that those who oppose the idea of legalization can be used as evidence for your cause, and their own misunderstandings used to support legalization.
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