General purpose: Persuade my audience to agree that marijuana should be legalized due to its benefits
Specific purpose: To change my audience’s mind about the many misconceptions of marijuana and convince them that it’s beneficial.
Introduction:
What if I told you that there was a treatment that could help reduce the symptoms of epilepsy, spastic and seizure disorders, depression, Alzheimer's, cancer, and many other common diseases and disabilities, would you invest in it? (show a raise of hands)- You most likely would because it could help you or loved ones. Now what if I told you that this same form of medication is one of the most disapproved drugs known in our society today, marijuana. Many are quick to judge the users of this drug, but …show more content…
Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity. (possible that the increased lung capacity may be due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and not from a therapeutic chemical in the drug.)
Marijuana decreases the pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma."
In a documentary called “Weed,” Sanjay Gupta interviewed the Figi family, who treated their 5-year-old daughter using a medical marijuana strain high in cannabidiol and low in THC. She has Dravet Syndrome and the marijuana decreased her seizures from 300 a week to just one every seven days. The doctors who recommended this treatment said the cannabidiol in the plant interacts with brain cells to quiet the excessive activity in the brain that causes these
Specific purpose: To change my audience’s mind about the many misconceptions of marijuana and convince them that it’s beneficial.
Introduction:
What if I told you that there was a treatment that could help reduce the symptoms of epilepsy, spastic and seizure disorders, depression, Alzheimer's, cancer, and many other common diseases and disabilities, would you invest in it? (show a raise of hands)- You most likely would because it could help you or loved ones. Now what if I told you that this same form of medication is one of the most disapproved drugs known in our society today, marijuana. Many are quick to judge the users of this drug, but …show more content…
Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity. (possible that the increased lung capacity may be due to taking a deep breaths while inhaling the drug and not from a therapeutic chemical in the drug.)
Marijuana decreases the pressure inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma."
In a documentary called “Weed,” Sanjay Gupta interviewed the Figi family, who treated their 5-year-old daughter using a medical marijuana strain high in cannabidiol and low in THC. She has Dravet Syndrome and the marijuana decreased her seizures from 300 a week to just one every seven days. The doctors who recommended this treatment said the cannabidiol in the plant interacts with brain cells to quiet the excessive activity in the brain that causes these