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DdC
Cannabis Sacrament Minister
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Location: Santa Cruz Cannafornia
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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject: Plagued by Moral Relativism |
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"They say you can't legislate morality.
Well, you certainly can."
-- former US Attorney General John Ashcroft
As quoted in the Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998
Safety of Drug Incorrect & Irresponsible Argument By John Suthers
CN Source: Rocky Mountain News October 21, 2006 Colorado
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The proponents of Amendment 44 base their assertion that possession of marijuana should be legalized on the premise that it is a safe alternative to alcohol. That message is both incorrect and irresponsible and I hope the voters of Colorado will reject it.
Our American society is plagued by moral relativism, and the campaign in support of Amendment 44 is a classic example of it. |
"At this point it should be announced that most of the major (best and most famous too) poets, painters, musicians, cinéasts, sculptors, actors, singers and publishers in America and England have been smoking marihuana for years and years. I have gotten high with the majority of the dozens of contributors to the Don Allen Anthology of New American Poetry 1945-1960..."
- Allen Ginsberg, "First Manifesto to End the Bringdown"
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They suggest that society should condone the harm brought on by marijuana intoxication because, in their view, it is surpassed by the harm brought about by alcohol intoxication. That is an irresponsible message, particularly for our children.
When small amounts of marijuana were legalized for adults in Alaska between 1978 and 1990, the National Household Survey of Drug Use in America showed that by the late '80s 52 percent of Alaskan teenagers used marijuana. That was almost three times the rate of marijuana use by teenagers in the rest of the nation. That was part of the reason that marijuana was recriminalized in Alaska in 1990. In the Netherlands, the "coffee shop" legalization of marijuana resulted in use of marijuana by Dutch teenagers nearly tripling in just eight years. |
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Prov.29:12
Dutch Conservatives Crack Down on Coffee Shops
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Marijuana is not the benign drug that proponents of Amendment 44 portray it to be. In 1981, the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content in marijuana was 1.83 percent, which rose to 5.62 percent in 2003. (THC is the hallucinatory chemical that is the principal and most active ingredient in marijuana.) The THC content of high-grade marijuana rose from 6.58 percent in 1981 to 14.1 percent in 2003.
Corresponding to the increased potency of the THC content in marijuana was a sixfold increase in emergency room admissions because of marijuana use during the decade of the '90s, even though the number of marijuana users remained relatively the same. Between 1992 and 2002, there was a 162 percent increase in treatment admissions for marijuana use as the primary substance of abuse. Today, 62 percent of teens in drug treatment are there for marijuana use. |
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.
"A Congressional Medal of Honor winner said today he was 'stoned' on marijuana the night he fought off two waves of Vietcong soldiers and won America's highest military honor....
It was April 1, 1970, when [Peter] Lemon, an Army Specialist 4, used his rifle, machine gun and hand grenades to smash a large attack on his position. He fought the enemy single-handed and dragged a wounded comrade to the rear before collapsing from exhaustion and three wounds. . . .
'It was the only time I ever went into combat stoned,' [Mr. Lemon said]. . . .
You get really alert when you're stoned because you have to be. . . .
All the guys were heads. We'd sit around smoking grass and getting stoned and talking about when we'd get to go home.'"
- New York Times, June 22, 1971
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| The proponents of Amendment 44 contend that the law is not a deterrent to illicit drug use. In fact, the National Household Survey indicates that many of our citizens, including our children, are deterred from drug use because it is against the law. Sixty percent of teenagers who do not use drugs indicate that the primary reason they do not do so is because it is illegal. The adverse impact on their health is the second most frequently cited reason. |
These six things doth the lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him.
A proud look, a lying tongue, and shed innocent blood.
A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief.
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Proverbs 6:16-19
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| The proponents of Amendment 44 have also recklessly created a significant legal issue. Under current law the transfer of less than an ounce of marijuana from someone over the age of 18 to someone over the age of 15 is deemed possession of marijuana and not distribution. So in legalizing possession of less than an ounce of marijuana for people over 21, the proponents are unwittingly advocating legalization of the transfer of less than an ounce of marijuana from someone over 21 to anyone over 15. Their retort is that such activity could still be prosecuted under the felony offense of "contributing to the delinquency of a minor." But I assure you that a creative defense attorney will make the argument that the voters, if they pass Amendment 44, specifically directed that such activity be legalized. |
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
-- Ezekiel 34:29
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| Despite the claims of critics to the contrary, the battle against drug abuse in the United States can claim significant success. In 1979, the National Household Survey indicated that 14.1 percent of Americans had used an illicit drug in the last 30 days. This year that number will likely be between 6 percent and 7 percent. A 50 percent reduction in illicit drug use in America is not something that you read about on editorial pages very often. We have also reduced teenage use of marijuana by 20 percent in the last four years. |
The Lord… hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.
Isaiah 61:1
'Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethern, ye have done it unto me."
Matt. 25:40
"Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness's sake: For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven."
--Jesus
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| This is simply not the time to raise a white flag and give up the battle against drug abuse in Colorado. We need to send a very clear message to our children, and that message is that the only safe alternative to intoxication is sobriety. |
John Suthers is Colorado's attorney general.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair Author of "The Jungle"
Contact: letters@rockymountainnews.com * Website
Safer Choice * Safer Colorado
"The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana is a dangerous drug."
- Dr. William Woodward of the American Medical Association, in hearings on the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act
No Logical Reason To Punish Adults for Marijuana
Marijuana Use a Safer Choice Than Alcohol
Adults Should Be Allowed To Choose
'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible' By Vin Suprynowicz
(Thread) Las Vegas Review-Journal October 27, 2002
Moral Relativism?
The 'Virtues' of Ganja
Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas
Over the door of one church-based drug treatment center in Houston, a sign printed in foot-high letters announces: "Drug Addiction Is NOT a Disease. It's a Sin." At another, clients pass by a poster of an addict in a hospital bed, ripping IV tubes out of his arms and throwing his pills in the garbage. An angel hovers nearby, offering her protection from this plague of prescriptions.
And at a Christian young adult home in Corpus Christi, police recently took the unusual step of arresting a supervisor after teenagers complained that they were beaten and roped to a bed, all in the name of Christian discipline. More arrests are anticipated, authorities say.
These are some of the results--expected and unexpected--of Gov. George W. Bush's "bold new experiment in welfare reform." With his conviction that religious groups can transform lives in ways government can't, Bush sponsored laws in 1997 that allow churches to provide social services their own way, outside the intrusive glare of the state.
Straight, Incorporated
The Drug War Is The Inquisition by Dan Russell
"If arresting more people is supposed to stop kids from trying marijuana,
it seems not to be working,"
Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project in D.C.
What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts?
Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site www.spr.org,
where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape"
has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men
entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."
The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men
who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:
"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern.
The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...
"If you have a choice,
try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ...
The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be,
so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs.
The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding,
for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream.
So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can
to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts,
avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration,
try to relax your muscles as much as possible.
These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting,
they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life. ...
Conservatives Argument for Legalization
"Parallel to the training of the body
a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin.
Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations.
Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters,
and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food,
particularly for the youth...
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays
must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world
and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea."
Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", Vol. 1, Chapter 10
Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life
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Brother Adam
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| Bush sponsored laws in 1997 that allow churches to provide social services their own way, outside the intrusive glare of the state. |
This sounds too good to be true honestly. It seems that G. W. Bush in his haste to wreck society may have given us another firm legal precedent! Can you point me to these laws so that I can learn more? Did he enact laws that allow us, THC ministers, to provide social services such as we do already, "outside the intrusive glare of the state"?!?!
I want to know if I'm looking at this properly, and if I am, it seems Bush shot himself in the foot with this one as far as we are concerned.
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
-James Madison
Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face. |
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Stokes
Cannabis Sacrament Minister
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Location: PA
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That's good stuff.
Thanks again, DdC.
I'll post it again in case someone didn't click on the link.
http://www.yahooka.com/forum/showthread.php?p=50447226
high regards,
Stokes
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