PLANTS BELONG TO EVERYONE

Editor:

Re: What would God want? Feedback, the Observer, Dec. 6.

Michael Hunt-Hertz's argument for prohibition makes absolutely no sense.

Just because God insisted on circumcision, and allowed Post
Generational Procreation to populate the Earth, doesn't mean that He
wanted some of us to put others in jail for using a herb. They have
nothing at all to do with each other.

Consider Genesis, Chapter 1, verse 11-12: And God said, "Let the
earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees
bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind,
upon the earth." And it was so. 12: The earth brought forth
vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and
trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its
kind. And God saw that it was good."

By Hunt-Hertz's logic, we'd have to put God Himself in jail for
"inventing marijuana with intent to distribute."

Also, decades of The Almighty giving away free sunlight and rain to
marijuana growers, many of whom are affiliated with organized crime
or biker gangs, constitutes trillions of charges of participating in
various organized drug crimes - in Canada alone.

God also created the Earth, which, to many police officials, is the
same as building a gigantic grow-op facility with the capacity to
output billions of tons of pot every year.

Finally, consider Revelation 22: "2 down the middle of the great
street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life,
bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And
the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations."

God's Law - as written in The Book - says all plants belong to all
men, everywhere, forever.

Canadian government law says some men go to jail for using some of
God's plants. Since when do the laws of man supersede The Laws of The Creator?

If Hunt-Hertz would rather offer his fealty and obedience to the
government, in open disrespect and defiance of God's Law, then he'd
better start praying.

Russell Barth

Federal medical marijuana license holder

Ottawa