Marijuana: Opponent's Factual Brief
OPPONENT'S BRIEF
Factual Proposition: Consuming marijuana is detrimental to one's health.
Definition of key terms:
1. Consumption= Smoking or eating marijuana. 2. Marijuana= Psychoactive mind
altering substance, also known as cannabis. 3. Detrimental= Serious harm.
Primary Inference:
Smoking or eating marijuana is likely to create serious health problems
for most individual users or society.
Overview:
Since the 1920's supporters of marijuana prohibition have exaggerated the
drugs dangers. Many of the "reefer madness" tales that were used to bring
support for early anti- marijuana laws , continue to appear in reports today.
The most important studies of recent times took place in the 1970's in Greece,
Costa Rica and Jamaica. These tests reported on the effects of marijuana on
its users in there natural environment. The reports covered marijuana's
effect on the brain, immune and reproductive systems. (1) These......
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