Pubdate: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 Source: Maui News, The (HI) Copyright: 2002 The Maui News Contact: http://www.mauinews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2259 Author: James D. Kimmel Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1489/a04.html Note: For more medical cannabis and cannabis eradication in Hawaii go to http://www.mapinc.org/areas/Hawaii MORAL ACTIONS COME FROM EXERCISING FREEDOM OF CHOICE Thank you for printing Louis Silverstein's Aug. 12 letter on the war on drugs. I pray for the day when everyone knows the truth about drugs and the laws against them. Every self-conscious personality has the right to experiment as a matter of personal experience in order to learn the facts and truths of life because there is no substitute for personal experience. All of the laws against drugs are far worse on society than the use of any or all of the drugs. You cannot legislate morality. None of the laws against all of the crimes on all of the books has brought or will bring an end to crime because everything is a matter of choice at base level and you never know for sure how a person is going to choose. You and your exercise of your God-given power and freedom to choose the moral rather than the immoral is what keeps you from doing anything "wrong." The drug laws are all part of a criminal tax scam that charges you for not using your freedom and power to choose. The legislative slavemasters give themselves the power to tax everyone to get the money they need for the budget that pays them and their police-state associates in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state and federal government. What a racket! James D. Kimmel Wailuku - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk