Summary Of Would Legalized Drugs Produce A Zombie Nation By Stephen Chapman

In the article entitled “Would Legalized Drugs Produce a Zombie Nation?”(Cederblorn and Paulsen, 332 - 334) written by Stephen Chapman. The author (Stephen Chapman) provides a clear details and analogy of the drug use and abuse in the American society. The article gave a picture of a theoretical view where the use of banned drugs is legitimized by the United States government. The unbelievable situation of having a legitimate way of circulating the proscribed drugs would create a lot of chaos in the communities and society in general. However, the overall data evaluation that it provides is somehow frightening. It shows that only a small number people in the society accepted that they would go for the drugs like Marijuana or Cocaine if it is decriminalized to have them openly with police and government not interference. There are also figures in statistics that connects with arguments that were provided in the passage to show the point of possible situation. In the beginning, Chapman did not limit his views to the one
The logical appeals are like spearheads, striking precisely to the mind of the reader to raise his strong level. He said that the trial level of the illicit drug abuse is limited to the monkeys only and luckily humans are not monkeys anymore so, there is no attempt of having any research procedure to take place for them. Furthermore, human brain advanced to the extent that it can reason what is good or bad for the body and as for the illicit drug addiction, most of the level headed people would not go for it if they have seen what happens to the person who once gets addicted to it. He fairly admits the data study that most of the people have tested the illicit drug of cocaine just for the sake of amusement but the number of experiment is small to the one time only. There is no other way than to leave this habit as early as possible to get rid of the addicted