'SOCIETY FULL OF HYPOCRITES'

Re: The letter "Don't Legalize Everything" (A-J, 9-15).

In an attempt to make the case for continued drug criminalization, a letter
writer actually suggested that "God," during early creation, had
experimented with Libertarianism! Unfortunately, according to the writer,
"(God) quit using the Libertarian concept" essentially because it didn't
work out!

The obvious foundational implications this understanding poses to Abrahamic
religions aside, I will simply pick up where the writer left off.
Continuing: "God" then imposed the law. And after many years of failed yet
brutal enforcement of that law, "God" wasn't pleased. For tyranny had crept
into society. Henceforth, life under the law was difficult and unjust.

Then, "God" chose to have a son in order that he, Jesus, would reform what
"God's" law had so irrationally damaged. Jesus then spent his entire
lifetime attempting to undo the damage the law had caused society.

Unfortunately, all of his attempts at reformation of "God's" barbaric law
were shunned. Indeed, Jesus was eventually executed as a result of his
attempts.

The point is we largely live in a society full of hypocrites much like in
ancient Israel. We tend to be all too willing to point out the specks in
others' eyes, yet we often wear shades in order to mask the logs that
reside in our own.

Simply locking folks up and throwing away the keys for being stoned makes
about as much sense as stoning one's neighbors for failing to keep the Sabbath.

We need a sensible approach to this nation's drug problem, not senseless
solutions based on superstition.