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Mental Health Persuasive Speech

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The Queensland Media Association’s annual conference for 2014 has been framed around the question, “The Media: Constructing a New Youth?” Today I will be speaking to you about how and why cannabis is affecting mental health in today’s generation of teens. Cannabis, or by the most popular street names “Pot, Dope, Weed, Leaf, Gunga, weed, Grass, or the most popular name, marijuana” is undoubtedly the most well-known and used drug especially by teenagers. This drug is well known for its relaxing properties and good feelings. But are these feelings worth the long term side effects for a teen’s mental health later on when they grow older? Using cannabis regularly will cause it to become a normal part of life and a less of a high over time, this is why it is known as a gateway drug for teens who get bored if it then later leads them on into much harder drugs. An article that gives readers a glimpse of how much the drug can affect teenager’s wellbeing’s is titled “The Drug Awareness Program”. A technique the author used to portray the harmful side effects of cannabis use was emotional appeal. Emotional appeal was used when the reader stated that cannabis use can increase the risk of severe mental health problems, especially in young people. This risk increases with frequency and amount of cannabis use. The frequent or even …show more content…

A technique the author used in this article was visual language. The technique is shown with the young teen boy with his head down and feeling depressed from the long term use of cannabis. This image shows how mental health is being impaired from using the drug. The last technique the author used was statistics, which he said “Research suggests that about 1 in 11 users becomes addicted to marijuana. This number increases among those who start as teens or 1 in

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