CANNABIS, "THE TREE OF LIFE," BRINGS HEALING AND PEACE

The tree of life, also known as cannabis, kaneh bosm and marijuana, is
a plant, not a drug. However, it is one of the most important
considering your column: "Religion, Drugs Similarly Affect Brain"
(Feb. 23, 2007), though America's current political leaders - read,
disobedient Christians - deem it the devil weed. Cannabis holds
survival in its realm; the very last page of the Bible tells us the
leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations. Healing
in every sense of the word with the ability to bring world peace and
cure disease. Interestingly, while God, The Ecologist, indicates all
the plants are good on the very first page of the Bible, cannabis
prohibition may be the original sin. If there ever was a plant that
greedy war mongers should fear and exterminate, it's the tree of life.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo. resident