Pubdate: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 Source: Reno News & Review (NV) Copyright: 2005, Chico Community Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2524 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n493/a07.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm (Opinion) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) POT IS A GIFT FROM GOD Re "Pot Prohibition Madness" (RN&R, News, March 17): With all the discredited, government-subsidized persecution of cannabis and the public's subsequent brainwashing, it is important for cannabis users to know where they stand on the issue in biblical terms. It is biblically correct to re-legalize cannabis (kaneh bosm before the King James Version). It is no accident that the Bible indicates God created all the seed-bearing plants and said they were all good on literally the very first page of Genesis (1:11-12 and 29-30). The only biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that we use it with thanksgiving: See 1 Timothy 4:1-5, where it even describes who will promote its prohibition--those who have fallen away from the faith. It is time for government to stop caging humans for using what is good. Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin