Pubdate: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 Source: Grand Valley Lanthorn (MI Edu) Copyright: 2010 Grand Valley Lanthorn Contact: http://www.lanthorn.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5002 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n299/a05.html DON'T HATE ON 'GOD-GIVEN PLANT' Given that cannabis (marijuana) prohibition laws were made as legal discrimination from the beginning, it's no surprise there are certain people insistent on continuing the discrimination (GV's Policy Outlaws Medical Marijuana, April 18, 2010) as long as possible. If sick citizens are allowed to use the full array of pharmaceutical drugs which are highly addictive and have side effects which include death, then patients should be able to use the relatively safe, God-given plant cannabis. Another reason to quit discriminating against sick citizens who use cannabis is because it is Biblically correct since 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 (Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30). The only Biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). And "But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?" (see 1 John 3:17). Jesus Christ risked jail to heal the sick. Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake