Pubdate: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 Source: Charlatan, The (CN ON Edu) Copyright: 2007 Charlatan Publications Inc. Contact: http://www.charlatan.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4343 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1430/a04.html Author: Stan White ACCEPT WEED WITH A SMILE OF GRATITUDE Re: Tories Propose Drug Crime Crackdown, Dec. 8, 2007 Canadians should keep mandatory minimum sentences (Tories Propose Drug Crime Crackdown, Dec. 8, 2007) out of their country. Citizens who grow or sell cannabis offer services that should not be illegal since millions of North Americans choose using the relatively safe God-given plant that should already be re-legalized. Discredited and harmful mandatory minimum sentences will effect cannabis growers and sellers at a time when laws should be moving in the opposite direction. Even Canada's 2002, Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs' unanimously recommended to regulate cannabis the same way as alcohol. Further, one reason to re-legalize cannabis instead of moving in the other direction that doesn't get mentioned is because it's Biblically correct. Christ God Our Father, The Ecologician indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very first page in the Bible. The only Biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). Stan White Green Collar Works