MARIJUANA SMOKERS HAVE HARMED NO ONE

Re: "God thinks well of marijuana," Dec. 2 letter:

Letter writer Stan White is correct that the God of the Bible
approves marijuana, but there is more to consider.

Punishing people where no injury to another person has been done goes
against the law of God commanding that criminal punishment must equal
the injury done and no more:

Exodus says, "But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life."

Leviticus says, "fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth;
as he has disfigured a man, he shall be disfigured."

Deuteronomy says, "Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for
life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

People growing, selling and using marijuana have not blinded anyone,
they have knocked out no teeth and there is no maiming or murder in
their record. Yet drug crusaders think nothing of sending these
people to prison for many years when they have harmed no one.

America's drug crusade is an abomination, a blasphemy and a crime
against humanity.

RALPH GIVENS

DALY CITY, CALIF.