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Clear and helpful

Great book!

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Jon D.
Concise and clear - a great introduction for parents to read with their kids

Rev. Paul T. Murphy is both a Reformed pastor and, as he notes in his introduction, a reformed drug user, both of which add to the credibility of his" Stone-Cold Crazy."

This is more booklet than book, but it is an important one, highlighting how the four big arguments for legalization all fall short: 1) it isn’t medical, in that it has never gone through the same evaluation as other medical drugs, 2) it doesn’t need to be made legal to end the mass incarceration of marijuana users as there is no such mass incarceration, 3) legalizing won’t eliminate the criminal black market for it since legal weed is much more expensive, and 4) states won’t get a tax revenue windfall from legalization because marijuana use also comes with costs for the State.

Murphy notes that Christians might be able to support decriminalization – making it a fine rather than a crime – but as he quotes John Stonestreet, “Legalization says a lot about the worldview of our culture – one in which the State wishes to aid and abet the inability of people to deny themselves any pleasure. That’s called state sponsored hedonism.”

This would be an important read for church councils, and its small size make it one that parents could read along with their teens.

Wonderful comments. We are grateful for Rev. Murphy's work, and hope it will be a blessing for many.

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