Pubdate: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 Source: Standard Freeholder (Cornwall, CN ON) Copyright: 2016 Cornwall Standard Freeholder Contact: http://www.standard-freeholder.com/letters Website: http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1169 Author: Tom Newton Page: A6 GOATS BLIND TO SLAUGHTER I have posted before that I am not against the regulated medical use of marijuana. However, the wholesale legalization of pot for recreational uses will greatly destroy our society as a whole, which I am whole-hardheartedly against. Regulating our sinful vices has never improved society's overall health, mentally, physically, and morally. Legalizing pot would further increase the overall lawlessness we already see in society; it would increase the overall disrespect for human life, worse than it is now. Goats too blind to see and not caring that the slaughter is coming. Back in the days of getting "stoned," I smoked not to address my everyday issues with a clearer light and energy; I smoked to manufacture a drug-induced dream world I could live in, in order to cop out, so I would not have to be responsible to God and man. Being a pastor for the last 16 years here in Cornwall has proven one thing: human nature has not changed much! If it wasn't for the grace of God, so would I be! Ephesians 5:18 declares, "Don't destroy yourself by getting drunk [stoned], but let the Spirit fill your life." God's standard for his creation: do not let anything control you other than the word of God and the spirit of God. Pot controls you! Alcohol controls you! Whatever addiction or sinful lifestyle that controls you is not of God and God will never approve of it. Pastor Tom Newton Calvary Baptist Church - --- MAP posted-by: Matt