My Ethos would be that marijuana should be legalized since marijuana is used for all kinds of medical uses like they would use marijuana in cancer chemotherapy patients. Also, doctors say that it's good for stress since …show more content…
They only did a research paper on 1000 people from Dunedin, New Zealand and the study followed subjects from ages 13-38 and they had dropped their IQ by 8. Also, it would lower it by anyone who smokes or if you are close to someone who is smoking then why are cigarettes legalized if they can also lower your IQ and they are more dangerous than marijuana. This doesn't mean anything, though since they only did it to those 1000 people from the same place they should've done this to people from different places since everyone is different that's why I think that it doesn't lower your IQ. His Logos was that marijuana leads to more violence and also it gets kids more addicting so I decided to go and do some research on places that had already legalized marijuana and see if it's true. Since its already legalized in Colorado one year into it being legalized marijuana actually had lower down the violent crimes, and also teen marijuana rates have actually dropped. So it would be better if they actually legalize it all over the world. His Pathos was that you can lose your job, their property, and also their freedom if you get caught with possession of marijuana. Why do they only do this for marijuana since they are worse things that are legalized just like alcohol and cigarettes these things are legalized and they have very high risks of death and marijuana hasn't had a case of someone dying from smoking marijuana as Dr. Alan Shackelford which she is a high profile, Harver trained Colorado physician who evaluates individuals for medical marijuana