1. Defending the war on drugs may not be fashionable, but the fact remains that
2. hard-core drugs should remain illegal. 3 As long as hard-core drugs are illegal, they are harder to get, and 4 the social stigma of being arrested deters many users.

The following arguments were abstracted from newspaper articles, editorials, and letters to the editor. Use the method presented in this section to construct argument patterns. If a statement is redundant or plays no role in the argument, do not include it in the pattern.