What is the fallacy used in the following passage? "If marijuana is legalized, young people will assume that smoking marijuana is socially acceptable. That will lead them to give into the temptation to smoke marijuana themselves, and smoking marijuana can ruin their lives. Therefore, marijuana should not be legalized."
A) straw man
B) slippery slope
C) appeal to the person
D) appeal to ignorance

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The passage uses a slippery slope argument, suggesting that legalizing marijuana will inevitably lead to negative outcomes (increased use among young people, which in turn ruins lives), without providing evidence for this chain of events.

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