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"Why do people claim pharmakeia is 'drug abuse?'
.. people who disliked some aspect of others, searched the Bible for any hint to condemn them or trap them, and finding nothing, they turned to older texts with foreign words which have multiple meanings."
The choice as they saw and presented it was
total prohibition or total access to the hated drugs.
It was not that other methods
of controlling use did not exist or would not work; it was the
idea that
all usage was sinful
and must be stopped.
Like an ongoing morality play, this same issue gets played
out-repeatedly today with a new cast of characters.
As bills are introduced to lower criminal penalties for various illicit
drugs, one can anticipate any number of legislators standing to
attack reduced penalties as
an invitation for use
and
first step toward legalization of drug X.
Total Prohibition.
Public shooting, China, 2007.
woman put to death for "drug trafficking".
Total Prohibition.
Zealots and religio-prohibitionists know they are doing their
god service by ridding the land of
marijuana-sin (read: killing people for propaganda value, using marijuana as excuse).
Never mind their Bibles, Korans, and Vedas say no such thing.
In 1990, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates
told a U.S. Senate hearing that casual drug users
"ought to be taken out and shot".
ISIS agrees.
Total Prohibition.
"Drug policy director William Bennett
said Sunday he would support
''something analogous'' to the death penalty for high-level bankers
who launder drug money. Bennett has said he supports the death penalty
for convicted drug kingpins and, in an appearance on NBC-TV's Meet the
Press program, he said bankers who knowingly handle drug cash should
be treated similarly. ''If we're talking about capital punishment for
people who are high-level drug dealers, we ought to be talking about
something analogous for the high-level banker who trades in drug cash''
(Orlando Sentinel, Feb 19, 1990)
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