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rhetorical strategy in this article?

ive been reading this article over and over and i still cant find any rhetoric strategy the author uses. can anyone help me out and list some rhetorical strategies? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/fashion/19pot.html?pagewanted=1

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1. First, I'm not sure what your assignment considers rhetorical strategies. Are you looking for examples of the three types of appeals (pathos, ethos, logos)? Rhetorical figures or tropes? Invention or organizational strategies? One thing that will make it hard to find the appeals is that the article you're looking at really isn't trying to be persuasive, just informational, so isn't using much in the way of persuasive rhetorical strategies. Here are a few things that might count as rhetorical strategies: - One person is quoted saying "What kind of life is that?" - This is known as an erotema, or rhetorical question. http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/E/erotema.htm - There is some discussion of the definition of what an addict is ("The word addiction is so fungible in our society, and cannabis just doesn’t fit that tidy definition, though it can be abused,"). Definition is a common strategy for inventing arguments (http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Canons/Invention/TOPICS%20OF%20INVENTION/Definition.htm). Deciding whether definition is an appropriate tactic in a specific situation is a related strategy called stasis (http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Canons/Invention/Stasis.htm). - A sentence like this ("Many people can smoke marijuana every day without ill effects, advocates say, just as many casually drink wine in the evening.") is an argument from analogy, which is a kind of comparison. IN this case, it's a simile (http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/S/simile.htm).