Legalization of Booze and Narcotics is Dangerous to Society

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There's the huge lie that says prohibition of liquor and narcotics will only make the problem worse and that legalizing them is what stops them. Their argument is built on a faulty standpoint where they say that if you prohibit these substances then the prices will go up which will encourage more drug dealers to enter into them. These "experts" also claim that if you legalize liquor and narcotics then prices will drop because supply will be up. They say that the moment you do so nobody wants to enter into drugs because the prices will be so low it discourages profit. Legalization of narcotics and hard liquor will encourage them because nobody would want to sell them if there were laws that could lock people up involved in their trade. If the prices are lower because of a high supply of drugs and hard liquor then the more these people involved in the industry profit from them because more people will buy them at a rapid rate. If the prices of drugs and hard liquor were so high only a few people will buy them.

Let's go back to the example of Adam and Eve's situation in the garden. Remember what the serpent told Eve in the Garden? That would be an illustration to why legalizing narcotics and hard liquor trade would be compared to this situation:
Genesis 3:1-5 
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Satan under the guise of the serpent first questioned God's authority. It's like how those who want to legalize drugs want to use their argument. It's through the subtle deception that they may want to tell people that whether or not their governments disallow drugs. They can start using dishonest data to defend their stand. In the world of research there will always be dishonest people who manipulate data in such a way you'd be misled or placed in doubt. It's very easy to abuse the phrase "study shows" but such people are citing one faulty study after the other to justify their claims. Satan already used the term "Scriptures say" when he tempted Jesus. It's also very easy to lie about research data just to propagate a lie and that's what politically correctness is doing. These people will tell them that drugs should be legalized and that they have "proof" that legalizing narcotics and booze will lessen the problem when in fact it will make the problem even worse. They may even say that banning narcotics and liquor is equivalent to banning air, water and fire because of the harm it caused. The problem that's ignored is that narcotics and liquor are not even necessities and nothing beneficial ever comes out from them or any proper use of them compared to proper use of air, water and fire.

If prohibition doesn't work then why does God give a lot of don't do this and don't do that for people to follow? It's because of sin and its consequences. If there was no sin then there would be no need of prohibition against sin. You can't separate sin from its consequences. Here's what the Bible says about how sinful humanity stands up against God's Law and why the Law was a necessity:
Romans 3:19 
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Galatians 3:23-25 
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
1 Timothy 1:9-11
Knowing this, that the Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

God also promises a blessing to those who adhere to His standards of prohibition:
Deuteronomy 4:40 
Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

God clearly made His standards of prohibition to protect the people. He made rules against crimes to protect the people. Would you want to live in a society where you become a victim of crime and you can't do a thing about it because crime has been legalized or would you want to live in a society where you become a victim of crime but you have every right to press charges because crime is not legal? What is legal is not necessarily ethical. If we allow drugs and liquor to be legalized then expect the negative effects of drug and liquor to increase not to decrease. God fights sin by prohibiting sin not by allowing it. If God were to allow sin then He isn't a holy and righteous God. If sin were prohibited and were punished according to severity then there will be less offenses. Who would want to do wrong if the punishments were clear?
Ecclesiastes 8:11 
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Sin is becoming more rampant because certain sins are now made more legal through manmade laws. Before it was illegal to have booze but now it's legalized. Before it was illegal for underaged people not to have curfews but now it's legalized. Before it was illegal to commit adultery but divorce laws have legalized adultery to a certain extent. Before it was illegal to register same sex couples as a married couple but now certain countries have given the blessings of the government. With sin getting more and more legalized isn't it any wonder why the world is getting worse and worse? It's stupid to want a license to sin and yet you complain about its consequences. It's because sin will always be sin and the consequences will always be the same. Satan knows his time is almost up and he will do anything to convince people to reject Jesus Christ as one's personal Lord and Savior and one of his methods is through the legalization of sinful activities.

Even so come Lord Jesus!

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