Frequently Asked Questions

Welcome to the page of Frequently Asked Questions! If you don’t find your question listed below, you may send it to us via the contact page.

(This page is currently a work in progress. However, you are still invited to send us questions. In the mean time, many of these questions are addressed in the book “Solving Our Drug Problems,” and the page titled “What We Are Saying, What We Are Not Saying.”)

1. Why is this a cause for you all?
2. What kind of Christians are you all?
3. Are you all saying all drugs should be legal?
4. What is the difference between legalization and decriminalization?
5. Are you all saying drugs like heroin should be sold at stores to anyone who wants to try them?
6. Aren’t you all worried drug usage will go up?
7. Aren’t you all worried children will be able to get ahold of drugs more easily?
8. Why do I have to sign up in order to access the “Printer-friendly version” pages?
9. Who funds you all? I bet you’re a “front group” for a bunch of rich druggies.
10. Aren’t we correct in saying you are a Samaritan and possessed by a demon?
11. Why do you all not believe in shooting dealers, addicts, and users, on-sight when we see them committing the crime and know they're guilty?
12. Are you all cowards? You all don't believe in making examples of druggies by public execution? Hangings? Floggings? Other methods of shaming them and painfully punishing them?
13. You all are just permissive party animals, free-for-all nuts, who thinks “everything goes” and wants to see murder legal, as well as rape and child molestation, right? You all want to see religious use of cannabis and entheogens? I bet you all also want to see “religious rape,” “religious child molestation,” and “religious thievery.”

Why is this a cause for you all?

The reasons to be opposed to the Drug War are many.

• It is an absurd waste of money.
• It is eroding our rights as citizens.
• It is increasingly turning our country into a police state.
• It calls many things "only harmful" which are not!
• The Drug War is the nexus for the biggest number of ills our society faces.
• The Drug War exacerbates every ill the prohibitionists decry!
• The Drug War causes adults to try to avoid harsh penalties and therefore use kids as dealers and pushers to other kids.
• The Drug War is keeping a healing botanical, a plant God put here for us, marijuana, from my Dad who has Alzheimer's, and that makes me very angry! He doesn't want pills, I don't want to force man-made pills on him, I want him to have a plant!
• Keeping adults from access to plants God put here for us to use is EVIL!

Please see this page: Drug War Tree and Fruit.

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What kind of Christians are you all?

Christians Against Prohibition is non-denominational. We accept anyone who wishes to read. We accept anyone willing to sign up at the website (there are benefits with regard to tracking your comments, being able to edit them later, and customizing the look of the site). We welcome you whether you abstain from religion or belong to any religion, we welcome you and hope you will join us in sharing truth and love.

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Are you all saying all drugs should be legal?

Yes; legalized and regulated in some fashion. This is necessary for many reasons. In particular it undercuts the black market.

• Cutting out the profits from the black market will in-turn greatly diminish, or completely eliminate, the gross corruption in governments around the world due to the illegal drug trade.
• Ending drug prohibition ensures that those with addiction problems can seek help without fear of heavy-handed punishment.
• It ensures that drugs will be pure and not "cut" with adulterants, thus reducing or eliminating overdose deaths.
• Needles will be legal thus the spread of blood borne diseases will be greatly reduced or eliminated.
• Crime to pay for expensive black market drugs will be eliminated or at least greatly reduced.
• More reasons to come…

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What is the difference between legalization and decriminalization?

Coming…

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Are you all saying drugs like heroin should be sold at stores to anyone who wants to try them?

Envisioning a scheme of legal access and regulation is an ongoing process. Many organizations have ideas or are working on them. Currently Christians Against Prohibition does not have an official stance, but will most likely scrutinize what other organizations develop and provide links and commentary.

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Aren’t you all worried drug usage will go up?

Coming…

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Aren’t you all worried children will be able to get ahold of drugs more easily?

Children gaining access to things they shouldn't should always be a concern, whether it's kitchen knives, access to outlets, cleaning agents under the sink, or items in your bathroom cabinets.

Currently most high schoolers report they have easier access to illegal drugs than legal ones. Why? Legal drugs are in the hands of responsible adults, are regulated, and those adults are held accountable. With illegal drugs, it's the black market that controls them, and frankly the black market doesn't give a darn about quality control, who sells drugs, or who they sell them to, they only care about profits.

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Why do I have to sign up in order to access the “Printer-friendly version” pages?

Basically, search engines were directing web surfers to the Printer-friendly pages which are just the text of the page, with no links, no banner, no nuttin'! So people coming from search engines could not get a gist of the website or see the sidebars and other enormously interesting links I provide. :-) Thus I only allow logged-in users to access that link. However, I am about to test a plug-in for my content management system that provides another method to access Printer-friendly pages, so it could be just a matter of time until I adjust this requirement. But rest assured signing up is painless, you can retrieve your password if you forget it, and all that's required of you is a valid email address and unique ID, no names, no phone numbers, etc…

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Who funds you all? I bet you’re a “front group” for a bunch of rich druggies.

Christians Against Prohibition is currently not an officially recognized non-profit, so any donations can't be called tax deductible. Currently CAP is entirely self-funded by the founder.

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Aren’t we correct in saying you are a Samaritan and possessed by a demon?

Funny! Or perhaps I should reply, "I honor my father, but you dishonor me!" For those not familiar with this passage you can find it here: John 8:48.

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Why do you all not believe in shooting dealers, addicts, and users, on-sight when we see them committing the crime and know they're guilty?

As some people are fond of saying, "we live in a land of laws." However, some of the laws we have are evil, unconstitutional and un-Biblical; go deeper, further back in time and it shall be seen that the laws of prohibition are in direct opposition to our Founding Documents, which, by-the-way, include such gems as "right to trial by jury" and "presumed innocent until proven guilty."

Spirit of Murder Says That

When you hear the above, and below, statements, you are listening to the spirit of murder speak; the spirit that loves death and lording authority over others. The spirit that says "do not fear God who gives life. Instead fear death. Fear me too because I am strong enough to push my will on others to go along with me."

As long as prohibition is in place, the notion to "[shoot] dealers, addicts, and users, on-sight when we see them committing the crime" is non-sensical for another reason, you could be killing an undercover agent.

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Are you all cowards? You all don't believe in making examples of druggies by public execution? Hangings? Floggings? Other methods of shaming them and painfully punishing them?

Clearly you seem to view using drugs as a moral flaw, a character flaw. It's rather ironic that you want such harsh penalties then. You should also read the previous question/answer. Many countries do use such methods of punishment, but has it stopped drug use? No. Has it stopped people from risking being caught trafficking? No.

Also, not all illegal drugs are the same. Some people unfortunately, get hooked on physically addicting drugs, but is the answer to just rub them out, as though they were totally a lost cause? Perhaps another surprise for you is that some drugs the U.N. and our government condemns deserve no such treatment.

What about people who become addicted to shopping? Running up huge debts. Or people addicted to eating? Should we simply shoot them dead as they commit their heinous acts against themselves and others? What about the man who was addicted to the dream the game he invented is going to become the latest addition to the Olympics? He quit his job, divorced his wife, and lives in his car with the prototypes of his game. Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of drug users hold jobs, do have rewarding relationships, and are not at "rock bottom," surely those who wish to shame or shoot druggies will want all these other addicts who have clearly hurt others and themselves shot dead so we can "clean up" society to the pristine state which we imagined it was when we were kids.

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You all are just permissive party animals, free-for-all nuts, who thinks “everything goes” and wants to see murder legal, as well as rape and child molestation, right? You all want to see religious use of cannabis and entheogens? I bet you all also want to see “religious rape,” “religious child molestation,” and “religious thievery.”

Groan. Drug prohibition has created the black market and cartels. As long as drugs are illegal the very people you hate will continue to gain strength and power, see Deuteronomy about the tail and head.

But the fact is that God created these plants for our use. If you don't like that or can't accept it, fine, that's your choice, I have no intention of forcing any of them on you.

God also gave us fire, but does that mean I wish to carry a torch around with me all the time? No. But I've learned a bit about fire and can use it for good purposes. The same holds with nearly everything else on this planet, including drugs, both legal, and those currently illegal.

Many people have had amazing and spiritual experiences upon taking various plants (or man-made drugs) and the only thing that should be between an adult and being able to use them is education in preparation, and minimal but smart screening. NOT a religion of hate against mind expanding plants.

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