Pot No More Dangerous Than Alcohol

You are cleaning your high school kid's room and you discover a pot pipe in his dresser drawer.  That night you confront him with it and here is the response you can expect; 

"Mom, what's the big deal?!?  It's already legal in Colorado and Washington and within a few months it's probably gonna be legal everywhere!!  Besides, Obama just said it wasn't dangerous...anymore than you and dad drinking wine with your dinner!!"

Speaking to The New Yorker magazine, he said it was wrong to think legalising the drug would be "a panacea" that could solve many social problems.

Mr Obama was referring to recent legalisation of marijuana in the states of Colorado and Washington.

He has previously admitted using the drug when he was young.

"As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life," Mr Obama said.

But he added that in terms of its impact on the individual consumer "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol".

He also said that poor people - many of them African Americans and Latinos - were disproportionately punished for marijuana use, whereas middle-class users mostly escaped harsh penalties.

"It's important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished."

Mr Obama described the legalisation of marijuana in Colorado and Washington as a challenging "experiment".

Here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25805206 

Thanks Mr. President for helping us to discourage our kids from the MIND & MOOD ALTERING drug of marijuana!

So now when your 18 yr old kid wants to go to Colorado for a skiing trip over spring break and they stop at the pot store...how are you going to stop them when they say, "Come on dad!!  Get with the times!!  It's totally legal!!"

So how is it possible to love the Lord with all your mind when you have freely given it up to be bent on pot, mushrooms, cocaine or any other drug that is clouding the minds of our society??

Mark 12:30

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.