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Consider this passage from A. Blakeslee: "Severe laws against marijuana do not discourage use of marijuana, but rather breed contempt not only for drug laws but for laws in general. Therefore , severe laws against marijuana are more dangerous to society than the activity which they are designed to prevent." The italicized word " Therefore" is being used as