Christians Against Prohibition is a nondenominational organization and website that welcomes everyone no matter what your perspective on God or the War on Drugs. Here at the website you will find essays — from an areligious as well as Christian perspective — as to why the Drug War and drug prohibition exacerbates every ill the prohibitionists decry and what can be done about it. (Hint: legalize and regulate.)

Mission Statement

1. Heal the Sick
• Drug addicts need our help, not our condemnation.
• Some healing botanicals God put here for us are undeservedly condemned, stolen from those who grow them, and withheld from others who could benefit from them.
2. Free the Captives
• Many people suffering neurodegenerative diseases are captive to their suffering brains, others who must take care of them, and frustration; they could be benefitting from the healing herb cannabis.
• Many millions of people have been arrested on drug charges even though they were non-violent and were not hurting anyone. (The lowest common denominator for justice is in the Old Testament: eye for eye, tooth for tooth; yet Jesus said we are to be better than that; imprisoning people for the personal choice to use drugs is an outrage against the OT law and Jesus' advice.)
• All of those people have been branded with the proverbial scarlet letter as though they were sub-human, making it difficult or impossible to be productive members of society.
3. Shine Light in the Dark
• Educate the general public, and Christians, to the inevitable failures of drug prohibition.
• Offer ideas and suggestions for how to legalize and regulate drugs.
• Offer ideas and suggestions for encouraging people to make sound and healthy decisions.
• Not everyone who uses drugs is an addict.
4. Deal with Dissent
• Devastate the black market.
• Many people have all three problems above rolled in to one.
• Many people believe it's their duty to force their human wills or personal beliefs or their view of religion on other adults.
• Many people are expert at straining out gnats but swallowing camels, overlooking the logs in their own eyes while focusing on the specks in others' eyes.

Leadership

"But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
Matthew 23:8-10 (NIV)

Yeshua the Messiah / Jesus the Christ, Leader (take your pick)
Our spiritual leader. The Truth. The man who was mercilessly killed, but came back to life. The man who said "let not my will be done, but yours Heavenly Father." [Luke 22:42] The man taught us to pray, saying to God, "let your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven," [Matt 6:9-10] thus showing us we should not shove our wills, or legislate them, on others. The man who taught us to not be self-righteous-thuggish-bullies, but to heal the sick and set the captives free.

Andrew Bairnsfather, Sexton
Drew founded ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org not long after joining Law Enforcement Against Prohibition as an ordinary citizen civilian member. Not long before that he'd come to the conclusion the War on Drugs was a mind boggling misuse of money and lives, spreading death and disease; draconian, thuggish, Constitution-crushing, and achieving all the polar opposites of what it was supposed to accomplish.

After a quick survey of the drug policy reform landscape and not finding one exclusively Christian organization devoted to ending counter-productive prohibitions, he did what he never thought he would do, start an organization with the word "Christian" in the name.

But it wasn't long before God started sharing short essays and articles to feed the hungry, beat back the wolves, and offer moral support.

And yes, Drew really was a sexton before this most recent parallel stint. He mopped floors, took toys out of toilets, set up for and took down after church events, vacuumed carpets, dealt with central heating issues, adjusted the signage for the upcoming week's sermon, and lots of other stuff.

Board of Directors

Reverend Dean Becker, Drug Truth Network Producer
Rev. Dean Becker served in the U.S. Air Force as a security policeman and now has over ten years experience in drug policy reform activism. Currently in his eighth year as producer of three internationally syndicated radio shows: Cultural Baggage, Century of Lies, and the 4:20 Drug War News, Reverend Becker is also a speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. You can read his bio at LEAP. See the links in the sidebar for audio files and transcripts of past shows.

Forcibly Retired Pain Doctor
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