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.