Bernadine Healey's Article: Legalizing Marijuana In The United States

The article “Legalize marijuana? Obama was right to say no” by Bernadine Healey was interesting. Her facts seem reliable as she is a cardiologist and at one point president of the Red Cross. Bernadine Healey was able to persuade her audience by her strong points and giving evidence using logos, pathos, and ethos. She was also able to be respectful in her counter argument and was able to bring her audience against marijuana. The main thesis of the article is that policymakers should not ever legalize marijuana as it would become a great harm to young people’s health. The main reason she was able to persuade why it’s bad for the young, was she gave scientific research, the bad effect of marijuana, and how it can lead to illness.

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Marijuana can cause users breeding problems, as well as heart problems. In a sense the author uses illness to make people fear what would happen if legalizing marijuana because it would just lead to more illnesses. It also makes people fear when she points out that marijuana can cause mutant sperm and harm unborn babies and born baby’s if the mother is a marijuana user. This main point the author gives is reason enough to not legalize marijuana as it would harm many children. It gives the readers an idea that if marijuana was legal it could make children addicts since infant or children would either have a health problem or mental problems, since marijuana has affected them. Mothers that are marijuana user may not know how far marijuana can harm them, and their

Giving good reason for what legalizing marijuana can do for the United States and how we can gain a lot from legalizing marijuana, but she is able to pull back her reader on why you should not be tamped by what good marijuana can do. The author of the article view that the negative effects of marijuana are a huge deal, since marijuana tempers with the human brain and that even though it has its pros, the cons win since it’s more harmful if not use properly or the drug is used to much or use often. As well that we still don’t know that much about marijuana and that there should be more studies on marijuana, since we can still learn more about