DON'T LEGALIZE EVERYTHING

Re: The letter "Decriminalization Of Drugs" (A-J, 9-4).

Should everything be legalized and placed before society?

Libertines would legalize alcoholic beverages, cocaine, etc., and place a
stiff penalty on anyone who committed a crime under the influence of the
drug. That method has already been tried. It didn't work.

God created the heavens and the earth and a man. He made a woman from part
of the man and placed them in a beautiful garden. They were to tend the
garden and eat of it. That is, they could eat of all the fruit of the
garden except from one tree. If they ate of the fruit of that forbidden
tree they would die. They ate of it and died instantly spiritually, and
eventually physically. God drove them from the garden and wouldn't let them
back in. God restrained them from the forbidden tree and, eventually, did
away with the tree.

So, God tried the Libertarian concept. He made the tree available and
placed a stiff penalty on anyone who ate of it, but He quit using the
Libertarian concept and used it no more. I believe some things shouldn't be
legalized and left to man's choice. (See Genesis, chapters 2 and 3.)

BILLY GLENN

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