Topic: How can we stop marijuana abuse on college campuses?

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that they should take action to prevent marijuana abuse on campus.

Thesis statement: We should all ban together to stop the usage of marijuana on campus.

Introduction: Imagine you're in school one day, walking back to your dorm. When you get there you find all your roommates smoking marijuana, offering you a hit. Ten minutes later the police come, and find the drugs, and you all get arrested. It doesn't matter that you didn't try it, that you were just an innocent bystander; you were there and considered a participant to the police. Believe it or not this is a true story, and it happens to students everyday.

Credibility material: I've seen usage marijuana in Israel, seen it on campus, met some drug dealers, and even spoke to the police at the police station in FAU.

Preview: Why we need to stop students from bring marijuana on campus, how we can stop kids from bringing the drugs, and how our schools can be drug free.

I. We need to stop students from bringing marijuana on campus

1. In the long run our fellow students will be better able to deal with the pressures of university life, and their long term health won't be put at risk.

2. The short-term effects of marijuana include:

1. From 1991 to 1996, current illicit drug use among 8th graders doubled from 5.7 percent to 14.6 percent.

Conclusion: We need new methods of getting students to understand the effects of marijuana use. We need more effective methods of punishment for drug dealers and distributors. We need campaigns like the Truth cigarette campaign to show students what the affects of marijuana usage can be. That is a campaign that can show the social and physical consequences of marijuana usage. We need to petition the student government to create better support programs for students, develop effective answers to the growing drug dealer presence on campus, all of which is necessary in order to begin dealing with the marijuana and drug usage at FAU before it gets worse.

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Approximate Word count = 892
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)