"Cannabis Legalization and the Bible: Compatible or Not?" written and published by Rev. Paul J. Bern
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The War On Drugs does more harm than good
Here we are, well over four decades after Richard Nixon declared the
war on drugs in 1971 and $1 trillion spent since then. What do we have
to show for it? The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world,
with about 2.3 million behind bars. Well over half a million of those
people are incarcerated for a drug law violation. What a waste of space
and human life! In business, if one of our companies is failing, we take
steps to identify and solve the problem. What we don't do is continue
failing strategies that cost huge sums of money and exacerbate the
problem. Rather than continuing on the disastrous path of the 'war on
drugs', the world needs to look at what works and what doesn't in terms
of real evidence and data. The facts are overwhelming. If the global
drug trade were a country, it would have one of the top 20 economies in
the world. In 2005, the United Nations estimated the global illegal drug
trade is worth more than $320 billion, and that was 11 years ago as of
this writing. It also estimates there are 230 million illegal drug users
in the world, yet 90% of them are not classified as problematic. In the
United States, if illegal drugs were taxed at rates comparable to those
on alcohol and tobacco, they would yield $49.7 billion in tax revenue.
Moreover, the Cato study says legalizing drugs would save the U.S. an
additional $41 billion a year in enforcing the drug laws.
Have U.S. drug laws reduced drug use? No, it's exactly the opposite.
The U.S. is the No. 1 nation in the world in illegal drug use. As with
Prohibition, banning alcohol didn't stop people drinking, it just
stopped people from obeying the law. About 40,000 people were in U.S.
jails and prisons for drug crimes in 1980, compared with more than
540,000 today. Excessively long prison sentences and locking up people
for small drug offenses contribute greatly to this ballooning of the
prison population. It also represents racial discrimination and
targeting disguised as drug policy. People of color are no more likely
to use or sell illegal drugs than white people – yet from 1980 to 2007,
blacks were arrested for drug law violations at rates 2.8 to 5.5 times
higher than white arrest rates. Prohibition failed when the American
people spoke up and demanded its repeal. Today, the American people are
showing their visceral dissatisfaction with the 'war on drugs' by voting
for change, often in the face of federal law. Colorado and Washington
recently became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational use of
marijuana. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow the
medical use of marijuana, and 74% of Americans support alternatives to
locking people up for marijuana possession.
What
does the Bible say about making a creation of Almighty God's illegal or
immoral? This book uncovers the ugly truth about America's 'Drug War',
while disproving all the myths and government propaganda about medical
marijuana. In this book you will discover the following:
- America's drug war is based on racism and illegality on the part of government, and particularly law enforcement.
- The private prison industry is raking in billions of US taxpayer money because of the 'drug war'.
- Alcohol, tobacco, prescription pain killers and codeine are all at least 5 times more dangerous than marijuana.
- The pharmaceutical industry, as well as law enforcement, benefit financially from the drug war.
- The federal government has been lying for decades about the addictive properties of medical marijuana. Cannabis has been repeatedly proven in study after study to be non-addictive.
This
book blows the lid off the “War On Drugs” while proving conclusively
that the 'drug war' is actually an all-out war on the American people.
Our time to rise up has come.
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