INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. No one has ever proved that smoking small amounts of marijuana over long periods of time is harmful. We can therefore conclude that this practice is completely safe

A) Red herring.

B) False cause.

C) No fallacy.

D) Appeal to ignorance.

E) Slippery slope.


D

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