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<\/p>\nMitcham, Mark H. “Recreational Track Meet.” Marijuana Policy Political Cartoons.<\/i>\u00a0N.p.,19 Aug. 2014. Web. 30 July 2015.<\/p>\n
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Mark Mitcham was born in the 1960 and currently a resident in Denver, Colorado. He is a recovering alcoholic, and a self-identified stoner who had a technical career in electrical controls. He started drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco in grade school. Later in his life he began to smoke pot at the age of 16. Finally in January of 1991, he quit drinking \u00a0after joining a group call Alcoholics Anonymous. Following the quit to drinking, a year later Mitcham quit smoking \u00a0tobacco. Currently he is a personal medical marijuana user, who finds the substance to be quiet beneficial. Therefore his username on the website \u00a0is the soberstoner.<\/p>\n
In Mark Mitcham’s political cartoon, “Recreational Track Meet,” Mitcham portrays the controversy of different narcotics. Throughout the cartoon, Mitcham compare three well known narcotics like cannabis (marijuana), tobacco, and alcohol to show what the individual does to a person. He add little well known side effect, such as high, out of breath, and drunk and lost. The \u00a0consumer safety line represent a finish line how \u00a0user of the substance has not resulted in death while the other two substance runners are represented with terrible side effect and number of death within the lanes.<\/p>\n
For the joint, Mitcham shows a little more favoritism toward the substance marijuana by drawing it as a winner of the race in the “Recreational Track Meet” cartoon. He shows how cannabis is more beneficial than any of the other substances because it has a low annual death while the other substance has a crap load of annual deaths of 443,000 and 25,000. \u00a0Near the finish line of consumer safety, Mitcham place some statistics of annual deaths for the different substances to show how harmful each one is to the current user and ex-user.<\/p>\n
As a cannabis user he might be bias, but instead he uses so many different factual information to show his background knowledge about the topic he is trying to get through to his audience. Mitcham gave a caption to the political cartoon on the original website to state what he is shock about as he researched on cannabis, tobacco, and alcohol. Within his research, Mitcham managed to conclude that tobacco has killed more American than any other legal drugs or non-legal drugs.<\/p>\n
The reason for this cartoon creation was because he felt a passionate connection to the substance during his struggle of becoming a sober person. Therefore this cartoon is a contribution back to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mitcham, Mark H. “Recreational Track Meet.” Marijuana Policy Political Cartoons.\u00a0N.p.,19 Aug. 2014. Web. 30 July 2015. Mark Mitcham was born in the 1960 and currently a resident in Denver, Colorado. He is a recovering alcoholic, and a self-identified stoner who … Continue reading