Pubdate: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 Source: Daily Reveille (LA Edu) Copyright: 2007, Daily Reveille Contact: http://www.lsureveille.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2879 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n234/a03.html Author: Stan White CANNABIS, "THE TREE OF LIFE," BRINGS HEALING AND PEACE The tree of life, also known as cannabis, kaneh bosm and marijuana, is a plant, not a drug. However, it is one of the most important considering your column: "Religion, Drugs Similarly Affect Brain" (Feb. 23, 2007), though America's current political leaders - read, disobedient Christians - deem it the devil weed. Cannabis holds survival in its realm; the very last page of the Bible tells us the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations. Healing in every sense of the word with the ability to bring world peace and cure disease. Interestingly, while God, The Ecologist, indicates all the plants are good on the very first page of the Bible, cannabis prohibition may be the original sin. If there ever was a plant that greedy war mongers should fear and exterminate, it's the tree of life. Stan White Dillon, Colo. resident