Pubdate: Wed, 13 Apr 2005
Source: Charleston City Paper, The (SC)
Copyright: 2005 The Charleston City Paper
Contact:  http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2400
Author: Stan White
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n568/a01.html

GOD MADE IT, LET'S SMOKE IT

It is Biblically correct to not just legalize cannabis, but
re-legalize it ("Legalize It," by Benjamin Schlau, City Beat, April
6). It's no accident the Bible indicates God created all the
seed-bearing plants and said they were all good, on literally the very
first page in Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30. The only Biblical restriction
placed on cannabis (kaneh bosm, before the King James Version) is that
we use it with thanksgiving - see 1 Timothy 4:1-5, where it also
describes who will promote its prohibition as those who have fallen
away from the faith. Government would like citizens to think cannabis
is a chemical weapon of mass destruction; in reality, the table of the
Lord is not defiled - see Malachi 1:6-14, subtitled "Sin of the
Priests" (New American Standard Bible). Biblically it is time to stop
caging humans for using what is good.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.
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