And the sickening part of this is: Most of them were voted into office by US! And they turn on us like this just because we smoke a legal product? The idiots don't realize that when they go with the war on the smokers, they are dissing 25-30% of their constituents!
I guess the big wigs think they don't NEED 25-30% of the votes anymore. But I sure wouldn't test it!
Nothing the average marijuana smoker hasn't been putting up with all the time. Probably with a lot of tobacco smokers' blessings. Maybe when enough cig smokers' ox's get gored, they'll understand ALL prohibition is wrong.
As Christ admonished against the Pharisees of His days & our days:
Shabbat is made for man, and not man for shabbat... and implicitly, churches & other regulatory bodies were even lower in authority as they were made for Shabbat.
By the same token acting kosher does not make kosher, but being kosher in the heart is what makes one kosher in body.
There is something possessive, insidious and vicious to the unchecked powers of a school teacher on this or that kid and the madness of our days. They obviously do not want to do justice nor teach, but exercise some kind of fiat authority over others for sake of authority.
A shabbat & kosher America should be for the unkosher, it should be for man, and not man for those things. Calculated risks & decision making should be done by whomever is tied to those risks & deeds, for who is to judge whomever they do not feel for anyways.
I swear, sometimes I wonder what cunning has visions for such laws which down the line will harm us, while historians & scholars sit here still wondering like sheeps what it's really all about.
Well, I gather I have most of the elements here, but not the answer quite yet. We shall see.