Ben Slater's Cannabis

In Ben Slater's blog, he talked about the legalization of cannabis. The introduction consisted of a brief history of American law's changing when view points change. He used that to relate it to the legalization of cannabis, which starts a strong argument. After that, he goes on to explain marijuana and it's stand point in American law. Showing how marijuana is classified and then later going into explaining the drug and what it does. He writes that marijuana is classified incorrectly by referencing books that have research to back up his claim. Doing this creates a very strong argument.
Later he brings into the argument a possible conclusion to our current recession. He states that legalizing cannabis would help our economy because of taxation. He gives evidence that cannabis is the fourth cash crop in America. This helps the audience to relate to the argument. With people seeing the economy going down and receiving the knowledge from the studies conducted on cannabis, it seems that a large number of these people will agree with him. Listing his sources and embedding the information was a really good choice because people will be able to look up more information that verifies his argument.

Concealed Handguns on Campus

The editorial, Concealed Carry on Campus, is about Texas Legislature passing a bill entitled HB-1893, which will allow students to carry their gun on campus if they have their concealed handgun license. The author writes this editorial to make an argument for this bill. He wants to open the eyes of the public to motivate them to support the bill being proposed.
In the argument the author claims that restricting guns on campus by people that are legally allowed to carry them is wrong and will not benefit the public any more. Throughout the article the author has reliable statistics about the effects of the concealed handgun license. They even put a website if the audience wants to look up more information or verify the information the author has provided. For the evidence the author used statistics showing the decrease of gun related accidents and deaths decreasing after the concealed handgun license was passed. The author also pulled quotes from students that are for concealed handgun licensing. These quotes are all very persuasive; however, it would have been more interesting to also see quotes from students that are against carrying guns on campus. If the author would have included a couple of those and argued against them to make his point it would have even made a stronger argument.
Everything in the editorial is well organized and sticks to the main point. This argument was very strong and persuasive. Because of it’s good logic and persuasiveness it helped me see the authors viewpoint. Overall it was a good argument and I’m interested to see the opposing sides argument and see how it compares.