Drug legalization

Well my Round 3 post was cut off because Con only limited 4,000 characters, hence why I put the dots, but lets keep going. I want to list 10 facts about marijuana from Drug Policy Alliance. Here is the link followed by the facts. http://www.drugpolicy.org...Fact #1: Most marijuana users never use any other illicit drug. Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD, are likely to have also used marijuana.Fact #2: Most people who use marijuana do so occasionally. Increasing admissions for treatment do not reflect increasing rates of clinical dependence. According to a federal Institute of Medicine study in 1999, fewer than 10 percent of those who try marijuana ever meet the clinical criteria for dependence, while 32 percent of tobacco users and 15 percent of alcohol users do. Fact #7: Marijuana use rates in the Netherlands are similar to those in the U.S. despite very different policies. The Netherlands' drug policy is one of the most non punitive in Europe. For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been permitted to buy and use cannabis (marijuana and hashish) in government-regulated coffee shops. This policy has not resulted in dramatically escalating marijuana use. Fact #10: Roughly three quarters of a million people are arrested for marijuana each year, the vast majority of them for simple possession. Police carried out 749,825 arrests of people for marijuana violations in 2012, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual Uniform Crime Report. Marijuana arrests comprise nearly one-half (approximately 48 percent) of all drug arrests reported in the United States. Approximately 42 percent of all drug arrests nationwide are for marijuana possession. Now this is for Con, by your account name and looking at your profile you are obviously a woman of God yes, or I'm somehow mislead by what I've read? have you not read this passage from the Bible? God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth.…To you it will be for meat." … And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:29-31) The Bible predicts some herb's prohibition. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall … speak lies in hypocrisy … commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-3) The hemp plant (scientific name: cannabis, slang: marijuana) is one of the many useful herbs "yielding seed after its kind" created and blessed by God on the third day of creation, "and God saw that it was good." (Genesis 1:12) He gave hemp for people to use with our free will. How was cannabis used in Biblical times and lands?Cannabis was used 12 ways: clothing, paper, cord, sails, fishnet, oil, sealant, incense, food, and in ceremony, relaxation and medicine. For so the Lord said unto me, "I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs. For afore harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches." (Isaiah 18:4-5)In the end I just want to say, Con never offered any counter attacks towards any of my statements, she also never stated any facts but only stated her opinions which I believe do not count towards anything on Debate.org. Cannabis itself is not the problem, it's just how we interpret it and look at it. I really wish I could go on and say more but I'm running out of space here. Thank you everyone for reading the debate and for your time.