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... Through supporting his sentiments through facts and statistics, Schlosser demonstrates to his readers that marijuana use has caused more damage to American society through its negative connotation in social turmoil, than it has actually caused to the human body itself. ... His articles “Reefer Madness” and “Marijuana and the Law” published in August and September of 1994 about marijuana use and U. ... laws on marijuana won him a National Magazine Award for reporting the following year. ... He displays to his readers a number of fallacies in leaders’ reasonings and motives and the misrepresentations
of Marijuana itself in examples proving as emotional appeals. ... They will most likely pick up on Schlosser’s emotional appeals and allow themselves to be persuaded into condoning the recreational use of marijuana in most circumstances. ... In the second week of November, 1998, The Lancet released a complete analysis of marijuana’s damaging consequences. ... ” While Schlosser does attribute the health risks to thoae identified groups of people, he does not, however, refer to the mental impairment, lack of judgment, and the possibility of risky activities done while one is under the influence of marijuana. ...
“Condemning marijuana became an easy way for baby-boomer politicians to distance themselves from the ig60s youth counterculture,” (Schlosser).
Approximate Word count = 1007
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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