Don’t.

Re: If you can imagine the legalization of drugs, people will not have free access to them. They’ll have to have a PRESCRIPTION to obtain them.

Might I suggest you go to California where the use of medicinal MJ is legal. It is NOW possible to drive down the road and see people with signs saying “Do you need a prescription..pull in here.”

They have a doctor set up that will prescribe MJ for any thing you report. ANYTHING.

Now, just so we are clear. Drugs is MORE than marijuana. Consider what it looks like for a person on cocaine to use their infant son as a base ball bat against a door jam.

It matters not whether it was legal or not. The problem is the substance and those who use it as some nations in Europe can now testify.

Re: Bonnie, you are absolutely correct. God owns my body, I am merely the steward of it. But I was trying to keep my rebuttal succient and to the point.

The Founders recognized Natural Rights, and particularly as articulated by John Locke.

Jefferson, for example, wrote to the University of Virgiia that:

“As to the general principles of liberty and the rights of man in nature and in society, the doctrines of Locke, in his ‘Essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government’, and of Sidney in his ‘Discourses on government’, may be considered as those generally approved by our fellow-citizens of this, and the US.”

So, lets see what Locke said about our right to destroy ourselves:

“But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of license: though man in that state have an uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. –John Locke.” Second Treatise on Government. Chapter 2 section 6

You are right and the libertarians are wrong, both by American Doctrine and Biblical.

God bless

Check over my post and tell me where I even used the word ‘rights’.

Bonnie, you are absolutely correct. God owns my body, I am merely the steward of it. But I was trying to keep my rebuttal succient and to the point.

Sorry for the lateness of my response.

How ironic that an article promoting the deliberate violation of that portion of the Hippocratic oath was published in The Journal of Medical Ethics.

The name of the journal should more correctly be The Journal for the Abrogation of Medical Ethics.

To all:

An excerpt from ‘The Harbinger’ (Jonathan Cahn), page 231:

“On the third day after the calamity, a construction worker was standing in the ruins of one of the shattered buildings. When he looked up, he saw it.”

“The sign …”

“The sign … unmistakable … glaring … forged not by human hands but by the force of the calamity … a cross … twenty feet high … of cast iron beams from the fallen towers standing in the midst of a landscape of devastation … as if rising up from the ruins. When he saw it, he couldn’t hold back from weeping. In the days and weeks that followed, it would become as the Cross of Ground Zero, a sign of faith and hope in the calamity, a sign again calling to a nation to return. But not only to a nation … a sign calling each to return.” (emphases mine)

2+3+1 = 6 = the number of man

Albert, PILMOC