Posted on 07/02/2014 11:27:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
$19 million in new tax revenue.
Marijuana-related arrests, which make up 50% of all drug-related crimes, have plummeted in Colorado, freeing up law enforcement to focus on other criminal activity. By removing marijuana penalties, the state saved somewhere between $12 million and $40 million in 2012, according to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy.
According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 through April 30.
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As one who spent 10 years in a drug and alcohol state of mind, of which the God of the Bible delivered me and set me free, and now a minister of the gospel having studied the word of God diligently, I'm very familiar about what I speak.
As one who spent 10 years in a drug and alcohol state of mind, of which the God of the Bible delivered me and set me free, and now a minister of the gospel having studied the word of God diligently, I'm very familiar about what I speak.
As one who spent 10 years in a drug and alcohol state of mind, of which the God of the Bible delivered me and set me free, and now a minister of the gospel having studied the word of God diligently, I'm very familiar about what I speak.
So I ask again, what is the biblical justification for modern day prohibition laws?
“Altering the thought process with mind altering substances for the sole purpose of a euphoric feeling is a sin”
Is that not choice of free will? To do or not is between one and God, not one and the State.
What I am saying is, if your stats for crime goes down because something is no longer considered a crime, make more things legal. By the way, maybe those 9 people will disagree with you.
http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/02/04/study-fatal-car-crashes-involving-marijuana-have-tripled/
Drunk driving and stoned driving are both illegal. So what’s your point?
Yup, you have a free-will. You can even rob, steal, kill, nad destroy if you choose to do so. You can drink drano should you choose to do so. Be reminded also that God ordained government with a purpose. Man is free to choose what he wills, but he will suffer the consequences of sinful behavior (in this world, and the world to come).
Deuteronomy 18:9-14
“When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to [a]imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these detestable things the Lord your God will drive them out before you. 13 You shall be [b]blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.
You may wish to note and study the terms "witchcraft and sorcery." Should you do so you will discover the terms are closely linked with the use of drugs, and in the New Testament, the Greek for "sorcery" is linked to English word (pharmacy, Greek pharmakeia). I know for a fact (having spent 10 years in addiction), that drug abuse opens up the mind and the spirit to demonic activity. It should also be noted that most recent studies on the use of pot causes real brain damage. We should also keep in mind that God ordained government with purpose, and part of that purpose requires it to protect man from his own stupidity and wanton ignorance. Sorcery, sorceries, witchcraft, and sorcerers were strictly denounced among the Hebrews, and God distinctly warned them of it. The penalty for such sin was death by stoning. "You shall not allow a witch to live."
You may also wish to note the warnings of Revelation 21:8, as well as 22:15.
But for the cowardly and [a]unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and [b]brimstone, which is the second death.”
Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.
This is what God thinks of drug use for the sole purpose of reaching a euphoric state of mind, and altering the minds ability to think rationally; not to mention a yielding of the mind to the "powers of darkness." Men often do outrageous things under the influence of dope -- there is a reason they call it dope. Smoke all the dope you want, but it will make you dopey, drive you in the hands of darkness, then chain and shackle you. I know, I've been there!
The pendulum is swinging back from the overreaction that banned marijuana from medicinal use. Overreactions always catch society with its pants down. Always.
The bible also says that prohibitions on material things that perish with use never produce righteousness... put that in your hookah and smoke it (proverbially speaking).
I am tickled pink whenever anyone finds Christ. But that doesn’t mean poof, instant perfected wisdom in whatever that person does and says. A school awaits, a school which sometimes is a school of hard knocks.
Believe what you will. As far as using it for medicinal purposes, if it can be of a true benefit to someone who is physically sick, I have no problem with it; as long as it is treated as any other prescribed medication by a legitimate physician rather than some quack, and disbursed at a pharmacy like all other medications (in pill fashion if possible, and regulated by the FDA. I don’t smoke Hookah either, but if you do, put that in your own pipe and smoke it.
Well I start by believing the bible — all of it. Even the ones that might seem to embarrass my agenda.
Berkeley To Force Marijuana Dispensaries To Provide Free Weed For Low-Income Patients
The city of Berkeley will require medical marijuana dispensaries to give away two percent of the amount of cannabis they sell each year free to low-income patients.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/berkeley-plans-to-provide-free-weed-for-low-income-patients-marijuana-pot-collectives-dispensaries/
I have lost count of how many children I have heard of over the years who's fathers sat around stoned all the time instead of PAYING FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S UPKEEP!
I know one man now who is a stoner and owes $28,000.00 in back child support.
So let me ask you, do you think perhaps the "victims" of this "victimless crime" might be us tax payers who have to pay to keep these children fed and sheltered? How about the children themselves, could they be victims of these people's pot use?
How about you do a quick web search and then tell us how many people are killed every year in drunk driving accidents. (And i'm not even asking about deaths from alcohol induced liver disease.)
And then you can tell us how things are so much better with that many people dying every year.
I have long suspected that an objective analysis of the pros and cons of prohibition would not work out so badly for prohibition.
Because unlike smoking pot, burglaries hurt someone else.
I will point out that after China legalized Opium in the early 19th century, 100 million people were killed in the process of stuffing that genie back in the bottle.
More such victories and we shall be undone. Actually I think we are already there. Your "victory" is a symptom of a decline already in progress.
Depends on what you mean by "Works". I'm sure we'll see the butcher's bill for this folly ere long.
But none of those things are any of my or your business in a free society. Otherwise, we are no better than Nanny Bloomberg and the other leftist totalitarians who want to run everyone else's lives.
False argument. Eating red meat, or getting fat does not increase the probability that you are going to injure or kill someone else. Smoking cigarettes is not going to turn you into a lazy bum who won't support your children.
The Libertarians always want to leave out the victims of drug usage because they are not always immediate and obvious, and therefore it is convenient to pretend they do not exist.
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