Pubdate: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 Source: Daily Free Press (Boston U, MA Edu) Copyright: 2005 Back Bay Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.dailyfreepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/796 Author: Jesse Rodgers Referred: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n338/a02.html?397 GOD DOES NOT ENDORSE CANNABIS Stan White's letter on Monday ("Cannabis not evil", Feb. 28, p. 4) is the most ridiculous piece of evangelism I've ever read. I am not going to go on a rant on whether or not marijuana is detrimental, but let's just say that smoking any kind of drug usually increases lung disease of one sort or another. Mr. White's ingenious deduction that since God created cannabis, then it can't be "evil" is just plain idiotic. If Mr. White read the Bible close enough, be it the New or Old Testament and their multitudes of commentaries, he will inevitably find passages that state the injuring of the body is an abomination of God, since the body - itself - is God's greatest gift on loan to mankind (Leviticus 19:28). Hence the Jewish law that those with voluntary tattoos or numerous body piercing may not be buried in a Jewish cemetery, for they have expressed contempt for being created in "the image of God". Mr. White's obvious use of marijuana is a voluntary choice, and so far has proved injurious to his mind, and probably his lungs. Mr. White's use of religion and God as an excuse for bad behavior is horrible. Jesse Rodgers, CAS '07 - --- MAP posted-by: Derek