“The U.S. should legalize Marijuana at the federal level for everyone over the age of 21”

Give 1 Pro and 1 Con argument for the following proposition. All premises must be entirely in your own words. For each argument you need at least 6 premises that are fully developed statements, in your own words, along with properly cited supporting evidence, all leading to a specific conclusion.

Be sure to avoid all emotive language and fallacies throughout both of your arguments.

General Proposition: The U.S. should legalize marijuana at the federal level for everyone over the age of 21.

The emphasis in this Assignment is on learning how to break down a general proposition and argue for and against specific aspects of it. There are many different sets of consequences that one can debate when examining whether or not something should be legal – health harms and benefits, economic gains and costs, etc. For this Assignment think of the best specific argument for legalizing marijuana and the best specific con argument against legalizing marijuana.