The Ontario Star's Argument Analysis

The Ontario star editorial writer presents a firm opinion by analysing the pot-selling consequences that evidently lead up to a number of serious matters and issues that are to be solved. The author displays multiple premises in support to his/her claims that seem to be mainly in attack to the present illegal sales of marijuana in the streets of Toronto.

In fact, the author informatively proposes premises in support of the bigger and frequently mentioned conclusion being: illegal pot-selling shops are to be strictly forced to close down until further notice. This conclusion is further supported by premises, and one of the most logically strong ones is that many individuals, who undertake in purchasing the products from these stores, as well

And it is how there are many more incidents that are not even reported to the police and remain covered by the owners of these stores. This is followed by a sub-premise supporting the first one, which is that the owners of these stores do not report incidents that happen in their stores (major premise) due to them fearing that the intervention of the officials would get them into even bigger trouble since they are selling their products illegally, and so they resort to not reporting anything to the police (sub-premise supporting major one). This major premise, if true, also provides significant support to the conclusion as it shows how unsafe the issue is and how it could get out of control extremely easily when problems like this do not get reported. In this case the acceptability of the premise is questioned because there is no concrete evidence within the piece whatsoever that support major premise and its sub-premise. Therefore, the fact that there is/are individual(s) who spoke about an unreported incident acts as the missing premise in this argument. Other than that the premise makes perfect sense and if true provides support to the