Instigator / Pro
15
1504
rating
2
debates
50.0%
won
Topic
#676

🍄🤯🍄Legalize Shrooms 🍄🤯🍄

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
6
18
Better sources
6
12
Better legibility
3
6
Better conduct
0
6

After 6 votes and with 27 points ahead, the winner is...

RationalMadman
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
3
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
42
1687
rating
555
debates
68.11%
won
Description

Resolution: Psychedelic mushrooms should be legalized in the USA

Rules:
(1) Debater must have typing experience and internet access
(2) Place your arguments and sources inside the debate
(3) Structure the debate in a readable, coherent way with labeled arguments (e.g. Evolutionary Argument)
(4) No semantics, trolling, or lawyering. Keep the focus on argumentation, not tricks

Rounds:
(1) Main Arguments
(2) Rebuttal to opponent's main argument. No new arguments
(3) Evaluation of main arguments and rebuttals + Voting Issues (one paragraph). No new arguments

Definitions:
Psychedelic mushrooms - mushrooms containing psilocybin and psilocin, most commonly in the genus psilocybe
Legalized - made permissible under law to cultivate, transport, sell, and possess
USA - The United States of America is the country in North America that consists of fifty states and the District of Columbia

Burden of Proof:
Shared Burden of Proof (BOP)
Pro must prove why shrooms should be legalized and Con must prove why shrooms should be kept illegal.

By accepting this debate you accept the rules, definitions, and BOP. And the judges will hold you to them.

UPDATE: actually, 301 passed with 50.5% of the vote.

UPDATE: Looks like Initiative 301 is going down

As of 8:30 p.m., the bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms was failing — with more than 54% of voters against it.

If it passes, the Denver Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative would make the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms by adults 21 and older in Denver would be at the lowest law enforcement priority in the city. Denver would become the first municipality in the U.S. to decriminalize what some call “magic mushrooms.”

"Rules:
(1) Debater must have typing experience and internet access"
Isn't that a given?

Source in R1 for final quote is: https://deserthopetreatment.com/psychedelic-mushrooms/long-term-effects/

I will post in R2 to make clear.

Leave it to RM to be against something that is obviously right and use sneaky little tricks to win the debate rather than truth.