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Logic

Analogies, Slippery Slopes & the Prohibition of Cannabis

Robert Davies applies some critical thinking to an old debate.

The aim of this article is twofold. One of its purposes is to try and give some reasons why the laws that prohibit the use of cannabis are unjustified. To achieve this I will examine two common arguments put forward to justify why cannabis is illegal and explain why I think they ought to be rejected. Its second aim is not really to do with the prohibition or legalisation of cannabis at all; rather I want to show how and why two different types of philosophical arguments fail. In doing so I shall demonstrate the way in which a philosopher goes about analysing and evaluating arguments which take a particular form.

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