Pubdate: Sun, 12 Dec 2010
Source: Roanoke Times (VA)
Copyright: 2010 Roanoke Times
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n992/a07.html
Author: Ralph Givens

MARIJUANA SMOKERS HAVE HARMED NO ONE

Re: "God thinks well of marijuana," Dec. 2 letter:

Letter writer Stan White is correct that the God of the Bible 
approves marijuana, but there is more to consider.

Punishing people where no injury to another person has been done goes 
against the law of God commanding that criminal punishment must equal 
the injury done and no more:

Exodus says, "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life."

Leviticus says, "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; 
as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured."

Deuteronomy says, "Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for 
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

People growing, selling and using marijuana have not blinded anyone, 
they have knocked out no teeth and there is no maiming or murder in 
their record. Yet drug crusaders think nothing of sending these 
people to prison for many years when they have harmed no one.

America's drug crusade is an abomination, a blasphemy and a crime 
against humanity.

RALPH GIVENS

DALY CITY, CALIF.
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