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You and your class can consider the topic of  Medical Marijuana as an Informative Speech topic from a wide variety of news and medical sources.

Consider

As you discuss this topic, consider how you could make this work for an Informative Speech.

• How can you inform on a topic that is still controversial?
• Is this the best “general purpose” for this speech topic?
• What must you do to maintain objective?
• What must you do to become credible?
• Where can you search local and state data, laws, policy on this topic?

Sources – To be updated with the most recent MN “OOPS, we VOTED ON THIS!?” Situation.

• Fox News = Pot is dangerous, not funny — a doctor tells us why. January 7, 2018. https://www.google.com/search?num=20&ei=2cUyW8WZAdb39QOF3aKgCw&q=Fox+News+Medical+Marijuana&oq=Fox+News+Medical+Marijuana&gs_l=psy-ab.3…151786.163769.0.170319.44.34.0.0.0.0.144.2937.28j5.33.0..2..0…1.1.64.psy-ab..16.11.1033…0j0i131i67k1j0i131k1j0i7i30k1j0i20i264k1j0i273k1j0i131i273k1j0i30k1j0i8i30k1j0i8i7i30k1j0i8i10i30k1j0i13i30k1.0.gSV2ahtJ1n0.
• BBC = BBC Documentary 2017 – Medical Cannabis: The Wonder Weed – 2017 Full Documentary. Geraldine P. Sanchez. Published on Mar 8, 2017.
• MSNBC = Meet the family of doctors who help people use medical marijuana. March 16, 2018. https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/video/meet-the-family-of-doctors-who-help-people-use-medical-marijuana-1187574339943.
• American Medical Association: AMA Finally Admits Marijuana has Medical Benefits. https://www.newschoolers.com/news/read/AMA-Finally-Admits-Marijuana-Medical-Benefits.