Question

Smoking marijuana Is less harmful to one’s health than smoking cigarettes. What type of claim is this?Is it claim of fact, claim of value or claim of policy?

Answer 1

Answer:

The most heated arguments over medical marijuana do not concern its ability to alleviate patients' symptoms but rather its potential danger to individual users and to society. This chapter first examines the scientific evidence that marijuana causes physical and psychological injury to individual users. Then it considers the potential social harms that could result from legalizing marijuana for medical uses. More detailed information and complete references for studies described below can be found in Chapter 3 of the 1999 IOM report, Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base.