“Why I changed my mind on weed”
In the article, “Why I changed my mind on weed”, Dr. Sanjay Gupta tries to persuade people to see the positive effects of medical marijuana in today’s health community. Gupta is a CNN Chief Medical Correspondent. The controversy if medical marijuana should be illegal or not has been going on for quite some time. Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes this article on a professional level because he wants to educate people on the benefits of weed.
Gupta begins his article talking about the previous article, “Why I would Vote No on Pot.” Then he comes out and apologizes because he realized he was wrong. Dr. Gupta said he hadn’t looked hard enough and ignored the “loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis” (Gupta). He seems to make people believe he is more credible whenever he comes out and said he did it wrong the first time. This makes us believe he is right the second time. …show more content…
Sanjay Gupta rebuttals another doctor’s opinion using the appeal of logic. “On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule 1 substance, and it has remained that way for nearly 45 years.” Sanjay Gupta said he wasn’t happy with what he found in this article and goes on to tell us what was wrong with. Egeberg said there was a “considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it”, when actually there was (Gupta). To refute what Egeberg says, Gupta tells the reader that there was already enough important research that Egeberg could’ve
In the article, “Why I changed my mind on weed”, Dr. Sanjay Gupta tries to persuade people to see the positive effects of medical marijuana in today’s health community. Gupta is a CNN Chief Medical Correspondent. The controversy if medical marijuana should be illegal or not has been going on for quite some time. Dr. Sanjay Gupta writes this article on a professional level because he wants to educate people on the benefits of weed.
Gupta begins his article talking about the previous article, “Why I would Vote No on Pot.” Then he comes out and apologizes because he realized he was wrong. Dr. Gupta said he hadn’t looked hard enough and ignored the “loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis” (Gupta). He seems to make people believe he is more credible whenever he comes out and said he did it wrong the first time. This makes us believe he is right the second time. …show more content…
Sanjay Gupta rebuttals another doctor’s opinion using the appeal of logic. “On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule 1 substance, and it has remained that way for nearly 45 years.” Sanjay Gupta said he wasn’t happy with what he found in this article and goes on to tell us what was wrong with. Egeberg said there was a “considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it”, when actually there was (Gupta). To refute what Egeberg says, Gupta tells the reader that there was already enough important research that Egeberg could’ve