"Marijuana Market Will Benefit Consumers and Society" Says Steve Fox the executive director of the Council on Responsible Cannabis Regulation. The author supports that marijuana should be legalized but in order for it to be legalized there also has to be a commercial market for the herb. His argument works up to the point where he compares marijuana to alcohol. When he compares it to alcohol he says that marijuana is safer than alcohol when it comes to driving. This does not work out because when he cites his source it goes to another editorial that also has no references to a scientific study. He concludes by saying that marijuana will be commercialized if it lowers alcohol use. I believe once it is legalized people will probably use both alcohol and marijuana together which can be even worse. I agree that if marijuana becomes legal and regularized people will know exactly what they are smoking and it will be a lot safer for the consumer, because everything would be labeled with the THC content.

Obama and the Election
Charles M. Blow from the New York Times is stating that Obama's approval rating is low and it will continue to get lower as time passes by. His targeted audience is people who want to know what will be needed to happen so his ratings will go up. Blow also states that president Obama does not need the African American vote to win "but he seems ever more reliant on this group to give him “the benefit of the doubt” and ride to his rescue". Here Blow quotes president Obama where he shows that he relies on African Americans to rescue him. In reality president Obama said, "black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt" there you can see that the president does not really rely on the black voters. Blow Does not really use good reasoning because he ends up contradicting himself in the end and his sources to back up his argument really have nothing to do with his topic.