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Recreational marijuana<\/a>\u00a0became became legal in the State of Colorado on the first day of 2014 for those 21 and older. Other states, like Washington, are preparing to do the same.<\/span><\/div>\n

Is this just a further sign of the \u201cmoral decay\u201d of American society, or can we say the legalization of marijuana can have a place in a Christian theology that values, instead of denigrates<\/a>, the body?<\/span><\/div>\n

We might think primarily of the individual body and marijuana use, but first let us consider the social body and what will happen to our social body by legalizing marijuana.<\/span><\/div>\n

Our social body is currently deformed, almost beyond recognition as a developed democracy, by the huge numbers of Americans in jail, many of them there for non-violent drug offenses.<\/span><\/div>\n

The so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d begun in the Nixon administration has been a\u00a0 Trillion Dollar Failure<\/a>. All it has done is explode the prison population to the point where in the United States the number of Americans incarcerated\u00a0 dwarfs<\/a>\u00a0that of other nations. Our national failure on drug policy is also racist. \u201cBlack men were more than six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and local jails in 2010,\u201d according to the Pew Research Center<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

The effects of this on our social body of families separated, and non-violent individuals exposed to the horrific conditions of our overcrowded prisons, cannot be exaggerated.<\/span><\/div>\n

Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recreational marijuana\u00a0became became legal in the State of Colorado on the first day of 2014 for those 21 and older. Other states, like Washington, are preparing to do the same. Is this just a further sign of the \u201cmoral decay\u201d of American society, or can we say the legalization of marijuana can have a place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMarijuana: A Theology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recreational marijuana became became legal in the State of Colorado on the first day of 2014 for those 21 and older. 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