Posted on 08/30/2013 7:20:26 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Edited on 08/30/2013 7:22:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Police say a father whose infant son died after being left in a parked car in the Phoenix summertime heat is suspected of smoking marijuana at the time.
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But the good news is that marijuana laws are not being enforced. < /sarc>
Now shortly pile on the back-and-forth about whether loosening marijuana regulations is a good idea...
of course, the father should be held responsible whether the neglect was due to pot, or to alcohol, or to chatting too long with his buddies on a street corner... any factor that was reasonably within his control.
And comes the question of self control. That is a gift from God but if people neglect the giver too long, bad things happen in their lives. Pot or alcohol or guns or anything that can be used to the ill are only scapegoats. The problem is not a pot or alcohol or gun problem. It is a God (or more accurately a saying-no-to-God) problem.
I would suspect there will be more of these types of incidents, especially in Washington and Colorado. But here in WA, our Governor thinks it will be alright because of the tax money he and the legislature will get.
Focusing on scapegoats like this does not enhance the dignity of man... it saps the dignity of man and is thus an insult to God who made man.
Two things that really rile people in Arizona, because they are so lethal, are pool drownings and leaving kids or pets in a hot car. The public has really lost patience with both.
This dad is going to get the max, and he’s likely going to serve every day of it.
we'll find that every criminal has been using...we'll find lots of accidents in which weed has been used...
This is what habitual mj use does - it makes the person into a zhombie. Meanwhile, all the mj addicts on FR will be writing in about how it’s harmless.
You are right. I came close to being killed by a stoned mj smoker in a car.
Notice the demon words here... “habitual ___ use.” Lots of things could go in there and even yet it begs an adverb too. Bottom line: rubber rooms can never substitute for the embrace of the Holy Spirit. The prohibition-mania of the 20th century, to the discerning spiritual ear, speaks of the national decline in the power of faith. Folks, when we began to blame (or credit) inanimate things and not the (supernatural) spirit that people chose to yield to, for bane or boon, we began to lose the spiritual battle bigtime.
I re-read what I wrote and it looks more perceptive than I even intended! The other extreme of the red herring of prohibition is materialism... oh, if you only have this car or that house you will be in Wonder City. No you won’t, as so many disappointed dreamers discovered. You’ll only have that much more care to keep up with as it does what all this fallen creation does, which is to rust and be destroyed by “moths.” And it’s the same folly in a different key. I’m not preaching indulgence in intoxicants. I’m preaching “indulgence” in God!
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