Reflection 2.1

In the first draft of my Rogerian Argument paper, I found it very hard to write. I didn’t realize how difficult it is to argue “nicely”. I found myself having to go back and make my words sound more kind. My topic was on legalizing the use of marijuana, there is so much to write about on this topic. I narrowed it down a bit by talking about how it would keep less people out of jail, it’s not an addictive drug such as alcohol which is legal, and how taxation of marijuana can provide needed and generous funding of many important criminal justice and social programs. All of these points support the legalization of marijuana. It was easy for me to do that, the hard part was trying to incorporate how it would be bad. My opinion is that it should be legalized so how am I supposed to talk about the other view too? It was difficult. So I still need to work on that part of my paper a lot. Making a compromise wasn’t as hard as I thought though. My compromise was to set an age limit on being able to purchase marijuana like alcohol. I also compromised by saying that there could be a limit on how much you have at one time like how they already made that legal in California. I still have a lot of work to do on my paper, but I believe that I have a good start.