Stephen Chapman's 'Legal Drugs Unlikely To Foster Nation Of Zombies'

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CRTICAL ESSAY:
“LEGAL DRUGS UNLIKELY TO FOSTER NATION OF ZOMBIES” BY STEPHEN CHAPMAN
As crime and corruption continues to rise in many countries and inner cities, more people and public officials have begun to discuss whether drugs should be legalized. In the passage “Legal Drugs Unlikely to Foster Nation of Zombies”, author Stephen Chapman argues in favour of his conclusion that drugs should be legalized as prohibition of drugs is causing more harm to society. Chapman’s conclusion is based on a convergent argument in which he provides three explicit premises for support that can be stated in standard from like this:
(1) Making drugs illegal has wasted a vast amount of money, prison space, police time, and caused epidemics of violent crime.
(2) Legalizing drugs will not cause people to use or try them more.
(3) Drugs popularity declined in countries that legalized drugs like marijuana.
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Chapman’s supports his argument by trying to prove that people will not be tempted to try illicit drugs just because they are legal, but fails to make his argument clear regarding what kind of drugs he is speaking about. Chapman’s passage focuses only on a few drugs like cocaine and marijuana, but his implicit conclusion sounds like he wants all drugs to be legalized. Not only is his argument unclear, Chapman fails to provide unbiased evidence, statistics and information that would convince us that it really would be best for society if drugs were made legal. Overall, the argument presented in this passage fails to illustrate both sides of the argument, and convince readers that drugs should be

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