DRUG LAWS INCOMPATIBLE WITH GOD'S LAWS In the eyes of God, using government to prohibit drug use is more immoral than drug use itself. Fighting a wrong with a wrong does not make our drug policies right. Here are some reasons. Unlike the sins of stealing, killing and other acts that directly harm people, drug use is God's exclusive province. Whatever people choose to do to their own bodies (taking drugs, tattooing and body piercing, eating poorly, not exercising, elective surgery) are issues solely between them and their God (or nature), who metes out His own natural punishment. Article 1, Section 3, of the Indiana Constitution (1816) states that "no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience." Government's control or interference in humans' "rights of conscience" is a usurpation of God's authority. It is our government trying to play the role of God, and doing a lousy job at it. Drug prohibition is based on the initiation of force, and is enforced largely against honest and non-violent people. It works like this: One group of people with political power tells a weaker group of people what they can and cannot do with their bodies and property. Those in the weaker group who fail to comply are hunted down, held against their will in iron cages, and stripped of their property on behalf of those with political power. But such bullying and pushing people around are not moral behavior, even for those with the loftiest of intentions. None of us has authority to force our own morality on other people. For example, it is not moral for you or me to hold a gun to someone's head or lock him in a closet to force him to quit doing drugs. Yet with drug prohibition, we use the government to do these things for us. The fact that many people support drug prohibition does not make the policy morally right. Drug prohibition is really for greed. For example, because of the enormous utility of hemp (marijuana) to make competitive fuels, foods, textiles, paper and building materials, marijuana prohibition provides economic protection for the timber, petroleum, and synthetics industries. Drug prohibition is also the best policy that bureaucrats have devised to get their hands on more guns (and power). According to government statistics, while only 15 percent of all drug users are African Americans, they make up 74 percent of the people in prison for drug crimes. African Americans make up about 12 percent of the population, but over 40 percent of drug arrests. Drug prohibition is replete with unequal enforcement and double standards that Jesus would condemn as hypocritical. At the height of hypocrisy, people in the dominant race in America are able to do drugs and yet still be president. Drug prohibition violates numerous tenets of our moral code. It violates the Eighth Commandment of the Bible not to steal other people's property or rights. It violates the Golden Rule to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. It is a way of "casting the first stone" in denial of our own disrespect of God. Regrettably, we look to government, and not God, to teach us our lessons. We've chosen Big Brother over Our Heavenly Father.
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