Claim
The claim being made is that marijuana should be illegal.
Data
The writer provides no statistics, but says that people could possibly get a buzz while another smokes. In youth, marijuana can be especially harmful.
Warrant
The warrant is that smoking marijuna is bad.
The Grounds
The grounds are that marijuana can cause very serious damage in the bodies of teenagers.
Backing
The writer uses somewhat of a scare tactic and asks if you would want to get a "contact buzz" from someone who is smoking marijuana.
Qualifier
The writer indicates that this argument mainly concerns using marijuana for recreational, rather than medical use.
Conditions of Rebuttal
The writer shies away from talking about marijuana for medicinal purposes.
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If the claim is that marijuana should remain illegal and the data is that it is harmful, then the warrant would be something like:
ReplyDeleteharmful things should be illegal.
Warrants are typically general beliefs, and may not use all of the language of the claim, since the writer is trying to appeal to a general belief of the audience (about harmful things) in order to convince them of soemthing in a specific case (marijuana).