VIEW MARIJUANA AS DIVINE GIFT, NOT AS DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE

Kirk Muse got an arrow splitting bulls-eye in his May 23 letter.

It is commendable, helping youth resist cannabis, drugs, cigarettes,
alcohol, sex and coffee until they are older and responsible for
themselves, but caging adults for using cannabis is the wrong way to do it.

The federal government can start by telling the truth about cannabis and
how Holland's relaxed laws have dramatically lowered the rates of drug use
along with the plant cannabis.

The government would like citizens to think cannabis is a chemical weapon
of mass destruction; in reality cannabis has been medically documented for
more than 5,000 years, still without a single fatality. Can that be said
about any other substance on earth? That's safety, on a biblical scale.

Instead of allowing cannabis to be exterminated by a disobedient Christian
government, we should thank Christ God Our Father, The Ecologician, for
cannabis and accept his blessings.

Stan White,

Dillon, Colo.