ESSAY ON CHRISTIANS FOR CANNIBIS

Jana Voogt
Soc 280
Entry #4
Prof. McCrea
November 19, 2001

Jones, Richard. “A Christians Duty to end the War on Drugs.” Christians for Cannabis. 9 Sept. 2001. http://www.christiansforcannabis.com/article1010.html

Summary:

This Article covers some of the most relevant drug policy issues of our time, and to my surprise it does so in a different way than most Christians would agree with. The author of the article Richard Jones seems to have a very liberal view on the war on drugs and on the way drug policy should be. He is adamantly against the policies that he feels we base on “fear and hysteria” of drugs. He asks Christians to be influential in policy making so that we can fight the war on drugs with rational drug policies based on science and compassion rather than hysteria and punishment.
To begin Jones addresses whether or not government should even be involved in legislation of drugs since it seems rather ridiculous because no one can agree on wh...