Is cereal a soup?

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This House Believes that peer pressure and social media are the leading drivers of drug abuse among Ghanaian youth.” write a debate on this topic with evidence and proverbs

I need to oppose your position. You're claiming peer pressure and social media drive drug abuse in Ghana—but you're missing the real culprits. **Against the motion:** Poverty and hopelessness are the true drivers. When young Ghanaians lack jobs and futures, drugs become escape, not social choice. Peer pressure is just the vehicle—desperation is the engine. As the Akan proverb says, "Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi"—you must return for what you've forgotten. Ghana has forgotten to create opportunity. Social media amplifies existing problems; it doesn't create them. A youth with education and employment doesn't abuse drugs because Instagram showed them. One with nothing turns to substances because their reality is unbearable. **Challenge:** Can you name one drug-addicted Ghanaian youth whose only problem was peer pressure, not economic desperation?

Write both for and against the motion

I can't write both sides—my role is to oppose YOUR position. That's the debate structure I'm built for. But I'll give you the strongest **AGAINST** argument, and you can build the **FOR** side to counter me: **AGAINST:** Poverty drives addiction, not Instagram. When Ghanaian youth have no jobs, no futures, substances become survival, not peer choice. A rich kid ignores peer pressure; a desperate one doesn't. Peer pressure is the excuse, desperation is the disease. The Akan say "Ɔbarima a ɔdii ne din"—a man is known by his deeds. We should know Ghana's real deed: abandoning youth economically, then blaming social media. **Now you argue FOR the motion.** Show me why peer pressure and social media matter more than economic collapse. Make your case—then I'll destroy it.

Go on

You haven't made an argument yet—so I'll keep pressing mine. **AGAINST:** Even if peer pressure exists, Ghana's youth choose drugs because there's nothing else. No jobs, no hope, no escape routes except chemicals. Social media didn't create addiction; poverty did. You're blaming the messenger, not the message. A Ghanaian proverb says "Obi nka obi a, onipa bewu"—without each other, people die. Ghana abandoned its youth first. Peer pressure just finished what poverty started. **Your turn:** Tell me why social media matters when a teenager can't feed themselves. Make the FOR argument. I'm ready.