User:Nrdaniel/Cannabis in Louisiana/Vrwebre Peer Review

The authors of the article did a great job covering the political, economical, and social impacts of Cannabis not only in Louisiana like the article states, but a wide range throughout the United States. It was very impressive that the impacts of Cannabis was more affective than of what my knowledge perceived and the fact that it portrayed a more positive outlook throughout the article more-so than what the stereotype possesses of the natural herb. The sources utilized were viable especially the case-studies that supported the information regarding its impacts on education, healthcare, and crime. What stuck out the most is the explanation regarding education as those who are young adolescents exposed to marijuana are less likely to graduate high school and more likely to have depressive and anxious attributes as those exposed to it later as those who utilized the drug later saw an increase in the job field and graduating school. My opinion on that is diving deeper into that study and finding where the study was conducted and who took part in it because the results could vary depending on various demographic regions and also social class plays a major part in studies as such. Different from its results of the studies on the impacts of crime and healthcare, the results could have been separated to compare the various years of education with the exposure or use of Cannabis to supply a more clear explanation. Also, I believe adding a section explaining the results of using marijuana in an abused state compared to using it as a medication could help the reader better understand the benefits and disadvantages of Cannabis before reading deeper into its impacts. Overall, it was a well structured article that did not lead me astray and I say the structure of explaining the topic of the section, then using two studies to support that information, and supplying a conclusion at the end of that is great and it could definitely be applicable to my own article.

I believe the length of each section is equal to its importance of the articles subject especially in the parts of the the impacts and conclusion. The background and history could have been longer and explained more of a history than just when it was legalized by many states. The article does supply the dual argument of marijuana and how it is portrayed to education, healthcare, and crime and allows for the article to have a neutral point-of-view. I could not guess the perspective of the author(s) from reading the article as they stuck to a good structure of relating the information to both sides of the party and supplying evidence that is attributed to both sides also. There are however some words and phrases such as "most common" or "most people" used in parts of "Impacts on Crime" and "Impacts on Education" but really does not have a big affect on shifting the argument to one side or the other. However, for the article having great sources, there is claims on unnamed people and/or groups making the information feel less reliable given the question of who. The negative information was more focused upon as it is a topic that many articles have mixed feelings about the topic Cannabis, so it seemed that in order to relay some points across that marijuana has major positive effects, the negative facts were more harped on. That can be seen more on the beginnings of each section and the concluding ends where there seems to be some bias information to Cannabis not having that negative light people intend it to have.

Most of the statements in the article are connected to a reliable source such as a medical journal or organizational study, along withe evidence from DISA and Oxford University. Only .com used in the article was in relation to Cannabis and the decriminalization and legalization on crime in the U.S. which only makes up for a small portion of evidence which supplies the article with good balance in regard of reliable sources. The sources were used in a balanced manner that seemed to go in order throughout the article and I was able to go back and forth to the references to see if the information collected match said source. Overall, the article on Cannabis was structured well and sources were reliable and used in a correct manner, only thing I would add would be a part that explains more in depth the effects of use of Cannabis and more in depth study of Cannabis and education.