20. Substance Abuse

GOD:

On the issue of substance abuse - It is again unfair to arrest, prosecute and imprison over 800,000 people In America alone for possession and/or smoking weed. Now, there are different aspects to this dilemma. The first is, of course, consuming any mind altering substance comes with risk and consequences, almost all of the time with devastating results that affect many people. I have created everything, each with its own place and purpose to benefit mankind. However, abuse of anything, from A to Z is hazardous to their health.

The human pleasure centers are all put together in one place in the brain to serve a purpose but it is easily stimulated with a variety of stimulants, not all useful, and a person can easily become addicted to almost anything from food, to host of many, many substances, natural or man-made.

Secondly, the law itself is being unfair as consuming alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs are legal/controlled substances, which goes to the core of the issue of fairness in freedom of choice. Therefore, the law infringes on the individual’s right in choosing what substance to use or not to use.

Thirdly, passing laws to ban substance abuse rather than regulating it only pushes the users underground and into the hands of criminals by pushing the price of simple weed that practically grows anywhere to be worth its weight in gold. And with it, decay in the society, as the lure of easy money, fast life, ignorance, lack of other opportunities and education brings about the foot soldiers, the users the drug lords need to fill a very lucrative demand in the village and all around the world.

The current brazen drug wars in Mexico and other parts of the world with police out gunned by the drug cartels are a direct result of laws banning these substances. Thus, creating a very profitable and easy money black market with a double edge sword, as with the laws on the book come the costly enforcement, trials and imprisonments, all paid for by the villagers. It is moral and less costly to educate My children than to imprison the lost souls in cold and inhuman cell blocks without any hope and a way out as My heart goes to them!