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Newshawk: Herb
Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/1AGWvalt
Pubdate: Wed, 28 Jul 2010
Source: Wilmington Journal (NC)
Copyright: 2010 The Wilmington Journal
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Website: http://wilmingtonjournal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3424
Author: Pharoh Martin, NNPA National Correspondent
BLACK CHURCH GROUP CRITICIZES CALIFORNIA NAACP ON MARIJUANA SUPPORT
WASHINGTON ( NNPA ) Some Black church leaders are calling for the head
of the California NAACP to step down over her group's support for the
legalization of marijuana in her state as well as over alleged ties to
the marijuana lobby.
Rev. Anthony Evans, president of National Black Church Initiative, and
Bishop Ron Allen, president and chief executive officer of the
Inter-national Faith Based Coalition took issue with an editorial
California NAACP president Alice Huffman wrote in a popular online
newspaper The Huffington Post outlining reasons why her organization
supports California Proposition 19 - the Regulate, Control and Tax
Cannabis Act 2010 - a measure that would make California the first
state to legalize marijuana.
"The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes is legal and we support
that because we advocate health but those are prescribed by a
physician and are prescribed for certain conditions," Evans said.
"But when the NAACP just says legalize marijuana we believe that it
sends out the wrong message given that over the last 30 years we have
lost over 200,000 people to drug-related crimes in the
African-American community. How can the church be in the business of
promoting illegal drugs? It just doesn't fit into the proper role of
the faith community or an organization that came out of the Black church."
[Remainder snipped]
MAP posted-by: Jo-D
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