Pubdate: Thu, 22 Feb 2001
Source: Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
Copyright: 2001 Calkins Newspapers. Inc.
Address: 8400 Route 13, Levittown, PA
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Author: Mary Mackenzie
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

WAR ON DRUGS IS NEARSIGHTED

When I was young I lived in Bucks County, too young to know what was going 
on, but I remember the beauty and am sorry to hear people are ruining the 
state by refusing to end the war on drugs.

When I was young I lived in Bucks County, too young to know what was going 
on, but I remember the beauty and am sorry to hear people are ruining the 
state by refusing to end the WAR ON DRUGS, which is really a WAR on 
AMERICANS. When did I lose my right to take whatever medicine relieves my 
pain????? What has happened to this country??? PROHIBITION WILL NEVER WORK, 
IT NEVER HAS AND IT NEVER WILL.

"The philosophical base of laws prohibiting substances lies in the 
assumption that some substances are evil and can be the cause of evil. Even 
though contrary to the teaching of Jesus, Mark 7:15-23, and to faith in 
creation and grace, churches helped promote the idea that alcohol is evil, 
that rum is Demon Rum. This provided a platform for saying that other 
substances are evil and for supporting internationally a Chinese policy of 
prohibiting opium. Christian apostasy wedded to Chinese politics have 
created the international "War on Drugs," quoted from Forsaken Fountain 
with The Right To Choose by Henry Boston. We go round and round, put people 
in jail we cannot tolerate, because they are different than us.

I smoke cannabis because I hate alcohol and you are not going to tell me I 
have no choice. I live in America and the last time I checked it was still 
the land of the free and home of the brave, though arrogant politicians, 
religious leaders and war mongers are giving it a bad name. Europeans and 
South Americans write me asking me to tell our leaders to leave them alone 
- - it is only by force and money that most of the globe goes along with US 
policy - we are not well liked abroad and I had to go there last year to 
see for myself that we are becoming FOOLS who can't see the forest for the 
trees.

I pray that no one in your family ever needs the wonders of the cannabis 
plant like Dr. Dan Shapiro, author of Mom's Marijuana. Dr. Shapiro works on 
the staff of the University of Arizona and used marijuana after chemo 
treatments to keep up his health by eating. Please keep your minds and 
hearts open for your present narrow mindedness is hurting this country.

cannabem liberemus,

Mary Mackenzie,
Vice President AZ4NORML
Tucson, Az.
Via the Internet
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