Let a Thousand Licensed Poppies Bloom

This proposal is about the harvest of opium which is bad in the sense that it feeds heroin addiction and finances terrorism, yet it is an essential drug in pain relievers and the United States wants Afghanistan to destroy the crop.   I think that this article is pretty persuasive in the fact that it presents many facts that back up all the claims it makes.  It effectively presents both sides of the problem.  It also has a way of appealing to the audience using pathos, due to the fact that it brings up at one point that without opium people with cancer, AIDS and other painful conditions was die in pain.  

The author of this article wants opium harvest to continue because it is essential in medicines we need for people.  He proposes many things with a large amount of facts and statistics that back up the claims.  The style in which he wrote this though seemed to get a little cluttered with information, and there did not seem to be a clear distinct proposal right of the back, which would be more helpful to see before you know all the facts.