Pat Robertson: End the War on Marijuana December 23, 2010

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 23, 2010

An unlikely name was added to the roster of Drug War skeptics when religious broadcaster Pat Robertson recently endorsed the decriminalization of marijuana.

?I'm not exactly for the use of drugs, don't get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot ? [is] costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people,? Robertson observed in a recent segment of his television program The 700 Club. ?Young people go into prisons ? as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That's not a good thing."

As a result of draconian laws passed during the 1980s, Robertson continued, "We're locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they've got 10 years with mandatory sentences.?

Hopefully Robertson and other Christian conservatives will eventually come to understand that using state power to punish vice is not only ineffective, but immoral

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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