The Almighty Creator is the source of all creativity. Our individual dreams, the American dream and all dreams of freedom around the world come from our source. The Holy Spirit has the power to make them manifest and is our true north.
What kind of life, what kind of world do we want to create? Focusing on the true nature of creativity as a spiritual issue, not an ego issue, can help us transform ourselves and our world.
This simple shift in focus creates the nurturing atmosphere needed to work together to overcome obstacles or differing opinions and solve problems.
The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on downsizing big government we regain self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and future generations.
Throughout history people have found ways to alter their consciousness. In primitive societies psychoactive plants were sacred and ingested with care, with supposed spiritual intent, but use was often limited to a corrupt powerful few who used fear and superstition to control the masses.
Today to celebrate, to relax, to just feel better, to live without pain, fear, uncertainty, depression and doubt we use our favorite legal or illegal drug. Nationally, globally, enmasse, we are a High Society!
Dr. Albert Hoffman, LSD inventor, is dead at 102, a son died at 53 of alcoholism. Dr. Hofmann called LSD "medicine for the soul," and believed LSD could be "used to awaken a deeper awareness of mankind's place in nature and help curb society's ultimately self-destructive degradation of the natural world." Before his death, he said, "I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that's all."
When we stand in awe of the wonders of creation, all the animals, all the plants and are struck with the magnificent power and beauty of nature, our spirit connects with our source. This feeling of oneness or love gives us more self control, more compassion for others. It heals our spirit. If some carry on the ancient tradition of using drugs as a sacrament, to enhance spiritual growth, it is cause for rejoicing not incarceration.
"I would say that the war on drugs has caused as much devastation to communities around this country, particularly low income communities, as the drugs themselves," laments Rabbi Michael Feinberg.
It's really worse than that: "Drug prohibition causes more pain, suffering and death than the drugs themselves." Cries Howard Wooldridge of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Watch the LEAP video, "End Prohibition Now!"
"If laws banning the use of force are relaxed when an intruder crawls in your window and you're home, shouldn't stringent FDA regulations bend when you're backed into a dark corner by a terminal illness?"
That was the argument made by the UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh in the Harvard Law Review. In his opinion and mine, a terminal cancer patient is in precisely the same situation as a home-intrusion victim or a victim of a rampaging bear, both of whom are exempted from certain legal prohibitions. (You don't have to check endangered-species regulations before knifing or shooting the bear.) "Medical self-defense is not an analogy," Volokh says. "It is self-defense."
Senator (D-MA) Ted Kennedy has glioma, cancer of the brain! Bless his heart he has survived surgery and now faces chemo which come with side effects he can count on to make life no longer worth living! Can he be unaware US scientists back in the seventies found that cannabis killed glioma cells? This report suppressed by Uncle Sam has recently been validated by scientists in Israel and Spain who reproduced these same findings.
Here's an example of Uncle Sam at his most beastly! Paul Armentano of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), discusses this situation that is enough to make a preacher cuss!
It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal uses of cannabis to be suppressed. Some scientific researchers speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who! Ever wonder why doctors call what they do "practice"?
Research on cannabis offers hope of a nontoxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of other treatments. It may through new research prove more helpful in control of hyperactivity in children without the bad side effects of current prescribed drugs as well.
Mexico's drug war has escalated to the Blood Baths of violence during alcohol prohibition. JUAREZ today is no different than the roaring 20s were in Chicago, prohibition triggers violence in our streets and along our borders.
"The tool we need to fight drug abuse is compassion. Treat nonviolent abusers as patients not criminals."
The cumulative effect of current policy is becoming obvious; while we police individual recreational and medicinal use of drugs, murderers and violent sexual predators roam free.
Prohibition fuels corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. It incites terrorists by forcing senseless policy on other countries. The black market supports despicable people who sell to children and who recruit them to sell to their peers. The statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in the drug war.
Restore justice in America; in the world, construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Get tough on violent crime! Warriors can get their adrenaline rush increasing public safety; chasing killers and other violent predators. Save the children, Save the planet!
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Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist. Her creation, DNT, Drug News Texas spreads light on the latest drug news and the subject of drug reform.
Restore justice in America; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Support for the federal war on drugs is inconsistent with support for individual freedom, constitutional government and the teachings of Jesus, the Prince of Peace. http://mccoolportraits.com/Spirit.htm
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
"In the end, however, no constitution can be self enforcing....For the Constitution will live only if it is alive in the hearts and minds of the American people." Roger Pilon, senior fellow and director of CATO's Center for Constitutional Studies.
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