Analysis Of Bernie Sanders's Speech

In his speech, Bernie Sanders talks about the legalization of marijuana and creating more jobs for the un-employment of people between 17-20. Bernie made the argument on legalization of marijuana seem like marijuana is not harmful and should not be a schedule 1 drug. Bernie compares heroine and marijuana with are both classified as schedule 1 drugs and says marijuana isn’t as dangerous as heroine. When he does this, Bernie is using the Definitional Fallacy by making it seem like marijuana shouldn’t be illegal or be next to heroine on the drug list. This argument might seem effective because a lot of people don’t see marijuana as a schedule 1 drug and should be used as recreationally. People also say that there’s no evidence of the drug killing