GOD'S

SOLUTION
FOR
DRUG
This was an AMERICA'S PROMISE radio
broadcast on October 20, 1968.

America's Promise MbrlstrIes

POBox 157
5aldpOOt, Idaho 83864
 In our Wednesday night Bible study
classes at my home we have been reading
about God's Laws for government as given
to Israel through Moses and then passed
down to us. At the same time we are
comparing this erroneous preaching today
that God's Laws are no longer in effect for
us-that we are not under the Law, but
under grace-and it is preached as if that is
true of the whole nation. So last Tuesday one
of the ladies from our church called to
suggest I might be interested in attending a
public meeting that evening (October 15) at
the West High School auditorium on the
marijuana and dope problem in Arizona.
Governor Williams was to speak, as well as
some other well-known people, so I went.
The meeting was sponsored by the
Arizona Alcohol & Narcotics Education
Association, at least partially composed of
ministers. There were 200-300 people in the
audience. The meeting was opened by a
presentation of colors, a soloist sang The
Star-Spangled Banner, we all joined in the
pledge of allegiance, a prayer was offered-
and the speakers then followed. It was all
done in a very nice Christian manner.
 I shall briefly summarize their talks and
then make some comments and read some
Scripture, for what I saw and heard in that
21/2-hourforum was the absolute and total
futility of a people trying to solve a problem
of crime and wickedness WITHOUT the
Laws of God. My friends, it simply cannot
be donel
The first speaker was Mrs. Sarah Folsum,
State Superintendent of Education. She
welcomed the people and expressed her
satisfaction that they were. showing concern
for our young people and the. drug problem.
Governor Jack Williams then spoke for
about 5 minutes, as he could stay for only a
short time, complimenting the group
sponsoring the meeting and those who
attended. He likened the audience to the
disciples of Christ-few in number, but
because of their dedication, they could do
much. It was one of the best 5-minute
sermons I have ever heard. I don't know the
Governor very well, but I believe he might
have made a good preacher.
Mr. Charles Tignor, head of the Arizona
Dept. of Narcotics, gave us the arrest and
drug statistics for the last year. Of 356
arrests of known peddlers, half were
charged only with possession of narcotics, as
a peddling conviction is hard to obtain. Also,
he said they have a card file on 1,101 known
addicts in the state with more being added
daily. Mr. Tignor has only 10 men to cover
the state of Arizona. Mr. Jay Smith, Arizona
Dept. of Education, spoke next for about 10
minutes on the parents' responsibility and
the need for the young people to have goals
in life. He indicated part of the problem was
some parents not raising their children
right.
The next speaker was Moise Berger,
Chief Deputy County Attorney. He spent 30
minutes giving an excellent account of the
illegal drug traffic, the path to addiction
from marijuana to heroin, and the hell on
earth in which the drug addict lives. He also
stated that of the addicts who go through the
year-long cure at the State Hospital (at tax-
payers' expense) OVER 95% GO BACK ON
DRUGS AFTER THEIR RELEASEI He also
told us that many become addicted from
drugs furnished free by pushers who, in that
manner, obtain another involuntary custom-
er addict, who then buys drugs from them.
Mr. Berger ended his talk by saying that
part of the solution would be at least 40 men
for Mr. Tignor for investigations and
arrests, and that parents and schools need to
train children properly and educate them to
the dangers of these drugs. He then invited
the audience to come forward and examine
the drug display which he had brought
with him.
I hope this is not beginning to bore you,
because I have only summarized in 5
minutes what took about 2 hours.
Rev. Wes Darby, pastor of West High
Baptist Church, then closed the meeting by
taking up a collection to help him and the
committee hold further meetings, in which
other experts, doctors, psychiatrists, psy-
chologists, and government men could help
educate school officials, parents, and
children. He praised the Police Dept. and
condemned some of the judges who
continually turn criminals loose on techni-
calities. He then repeated the desire to have
other meetings with these experts to find
answers to this terrible drug problem and
dismissed the meeting with prayer.
21f2 hours had passed, and those of you
· who know me realize that by that time I was
almost ready to burst! I had hoped for a
question-and-answer period in order to read
3 verses of Scripture, a very small portion of
God's Statutes and Judgments to Israel, and
then ask these fine people on the stage if the
implementation of those 3 verses might just
help solve the problem of the drug pushers
in Arizona.
And when I call them fine people, I mean
just that. I am convinced that everyone of
the speakers was entirely sincere in his
desire to find a solution to the drug problem.
But there was no opportunity to ask the
question, so I rose to leave, after writing
these words in the pad on which I was
making notes: "2112 hours, and not a one
discussed in any manner the punishment of
the wicked."
I met 2 ladies from my church in the rear
of the auditorium. One said, "All that talk
about the problem-and no solution." They
recognized that every speaker was searching
for a HUMAN SOLUTION-and of course
there is none. The problem will only get
worse and worse and worse, until we turn to
the Bible and begin to put into effect God's
Laws, Statutes, and Judgments.
So we left, but on the steps outside was
Rev. Wes Darby. On the stage he had said
he had worked with the Arizona Alcohol &
Narcotics Education Association for 15
years, so I thought, "Well, I'll read the 3
verses of God's Law to him; I haven't been
able to read them to anyone else."
I introduced myself and said, "Pastor
Darby, I'd like to read 3 verses of Scripture,
which I think might solve this problem for
Arizona, if they were put into effect. "
He indicated he would listen, so I opened
my Bible to Deut. 25 and read verses 1-3: "If
there be a controversy between men, and
they come unto judgment, that the judges
may judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked. And it
shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be
beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie
down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not
exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat
him above these with many stripes, then thy
brother should seem vile unto thee."
And then I said to pastor Darby, "If the
next 10 or 15 drug pushers were taken down
in front of the State Capitol, had their shirts
taken off their backs, and were given 20
lashes with a horsewhip, they and the other
drug pushers would be out of the state of
Arizona so fast it would make your head
swim." And glory be, he looked up at me
and said, "That's right-that would do it."
Well, this agreement floored me. Most
ministers REFUSE to admit that God's
Statutes and Judgments have ANYTHING
to do with crime in America! So, rather
startled, I blurted out, "Well, pastor Darby,
if you believe that, you have this ministers'
organization here; why don't you all go
down to the State Capitol and tell the
Governor and these other law officers that
putting into effect God's punishment on
criminals would stop this?" And do you
know what he said? Brother, Sister, to the
everlasting shame of the other ministers,
this is what he told me: "Well, I do, but my
fellow ministers shoot me down every
time." And then he explained that the other
ministers who went with· him would not
agree that God's Judgments should be put
into effect!
 Yes, my friends, ministers have preached
so long that God's Law has been put away
that they spend their time and their flock's
money bringing in doctors and psychologists
and psychiatrists in the VAIN hope they can
stop teen-agers from smoking marijuana or
taking heroin! And a horsewhip on the backs
of a few criminals could save thousands of
our young people from a living death and
our state from chaos of unchecked crime.
For I believe (and I am sure police officers
would back me up on this) the majority of
the crimes in our cities in this state are
committed by drug users and addicts. Moise
Berger had said a heroin addict would need
$20 to $100 a day-yes, a day-to supply
himself with heroin (1968 prices). How does
he get $20 to $100 a day? By burglary,
robbery, mugging, purse snatching, beating
up helpless old men and women, and of
course, murder in the process. And what is
worse, he also gets others hooked on the
drugs, so he can sell drugs to them. And the
drug suppliers who make $10,000 to
$100,000 a year from these addicts receive
small fines or a few years in jail if they are
caught with the drugs I
 JLootl Paid
For Heroin
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (UP!)
- An 18-year-old transient
has admitted to authorities
that he pulled off 376 burgla-
ries over the last two years to
support a $150-a-day heroin
habit.
The exploits of the youth,
identified as James A. Gard-
ner, were disclosed by sher-
iff's investigators who esti-
mated the total "loot" in-
volved at between $40,000 and
$50,000.
Cl'- Inspectors Bowen Bridges
;:? and Marco Melovich said
Gardner has beer. in custody
-0 since late Octobcr and has
::; quit heroin "cold turkey." In
'" addition, thcy said, the youth
:i has displayed "an incredible
'" memory" in pointing out
~ houses he entered and recall-
o ing just what he took.
In going from marijuana, a
variety of pIlls, "speed," and
fil1:J!!L heroin, the investiga-
tors said Gardner said he
was assisted occasionally by
some six or seven accom·
plices whom he adamantly
refused to identify.
The things he stole were
sold to "fences" in San Fran-
cisco "at ridiculol.lsly low
prices," the inspectors said.
 -I

Each Case Is A Tragedy

In Drug-Damage Hearings
By JOHN DECENZO Thurston, who con du c t s "About the Only t h i n g
Each case Is a tragedy. mental health hearings every they've got going for them,"
An 18-year-Qld girl, turned Monday and Thursday at the T h u r s t 0 D said, "is their
hospital, is concerned !>el;ause youth."
into a living vegetable be- the 56-plus cases he has heard
cause of brain damage from since July all involve young TIlE MAJORITY of the vic-
tims mess up their brains
drug abuse, may spend her people with drugo{jamaged
with LSD or speed, the judge
rel)laining Christmases in Ari- minds. noted, but the harder drugs
zona State Hospital. Judge Thurston said this like heroin and opium also rot
their share of what were once
Or two women, 23 and 24, number is "far tou many." rational, inquisitive minds.
and two teen·age boys, 18 and AT EACH MENTAL health
19, are committed to the state hearing, the judge must de- In three border-line cases,
mental hospital because of cide whether thL person is the detained persons were re-
drug abuse. leased because the brain dam-
mentally ill or is a danger to
age had not destroyed their
SUPERIOR Court Judge himself or others. On the day personalities. They were re-
he committed five, he released
Edwin Thurston knows the leased with recommendations
seven others.
extent of the tragedies, for he to continue outilatient treat-
committed all' five of the A lawyer is always present ment and consultation,
young people to Arizona State and at least two lay persons But some of those released
Hospital in just one day last and two psychiatrists testify have been on drugs too long.
week. at each hearing. "In their present state of
The 18-year-Qldgirl is in the mind," said T h u r s ton,
Their testimony is becoming
mental hospital because she "they'll probably go right
took 20 amphetemine capsules all too familiar: "Brain dam- back to drugs. You just don't'
over a weekend, "just to ex- age is indicated ... prognosis know if treatment has helped
periment with drugs." is very guarded." because yoU can't communi-
cate with thcm."
All five are from respect- It mean; they may be hos-
able, well-tCHIohomes, Judge pitalized 'the rest 01 their
Thurston said. lives.
 THE RELEASED .. ones
rarely hold down jobs or re-
turn to schoo\. They have no
idea what the effects of drugs
they took .weeks or even
months ago will have on them
now.
"These kids are playing
with dynamite. I wish I could
make a movie in court of the
results that often follow .the
use of drugs and show it to
every high school student in
Arizona," the judge said.
Some of the more severe
young drug abuse victims, he
said, "sit looking like vegeta-
bles" or else just sit and con-
stantly mumble incoherently.
Others, he said, animate
hopelessly in a fog of drowsi-
ness.
"Sometimes the parents
come and sometimes they
don't, and I see them with
tears rolling down their faces
because they don't know what
to do with their children or
how to do it, and nobOdy has
an answer for them."

HOSEA,4
6 '1 My people are 3destroyed for lack
of knowledge: because thou hast re-
jected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing
thou ha~;tforgotten the law of thy God, I
will also forget thy children.
 SllDday, Dee. %8,1969
The Arizona Republic

Girl, 12, says

she's addict
TUCSON (AP)-Pima
County medical officials said
F rid a y a 12-year-{)ldher-
oin addict came to their fami-
ly planning clinic in Tucson
and told them she was a
prostitute.
"Smack costs money, you
know. I've heen using two
doses ($10worth) a day, but I
!lot to have more."
County Health De~rtment
authorities said Iri te sto~
that the girl's Illibit IS a ligt
one compared 10 some Tuc-
son youngsters kI10wn10 use
up to 10doses daily.
When officials saw the age
on the application, they said
they chose an exceptionally
skilled and compassionate
nurse to interview the child.
"I've interviewed several
youngsters 11, 12 and 13 years
old, using or addicted to her-
oin," one nurse was quoted as
saying in the article. "Most of
those we see are from very
poor homes and their families
can't afford private care for
them."
 It is that serious. Yet when I suggest
God's Judgment on criminals as a Scriptural
punishment (the whip), most ministers cry
out in self-righteous horror and say, "Oh no,
we can't do that; that would be too cruel; we
must love our fellow man; we are under
Christ's love, not under the Law," and other
foolish nonsense. My friends, which do YOU
think would be more merciful: the bleeding
backs of a few miserable criminal degener-
ates? or the shattered and broken lives of
thousands of once fine young men and
women?
In these ministers' attempts to be MORE
merciful than God, and MORE righteous
than God in His Judgments, they have
brought our civilization to the brink of ruin-
and they cannot see what they have done! So
they turn to doctors and psychiatrists and
psychologists and other so-called "experts"
for an answer-and, of course, they will
find none.
Bible students agree that Daniel is one of
the wisest men in the Bible, and in Daniel 9,
in discussing the reason Israel had all the
trouble they did and why they went into
captivity, Daniel had this to say: "We have
sinned, and have committed iniquity, and
have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even
by departing from Thy precepts and from
Thy judgments." If you will read that whole
chapter, you will discover that Daniel knew
that Israel had had trouble and gone into
captivity because they refused to put into
effect God's Laws, Statutes, and Judgments
against the law-breakers. .
In 1 Samuel 15 we find righteous Samuel
talking to Saul after Saul had disobeyed the
Lord, and he said this: "Hath the Lord as
great delight in burnt offerings and sacri-
fices as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and
to hearken than the fat of rams. For
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. "
(1 Samuel 15:22,23). And, Brother and
Sister, Daniel said that rebellion was
refusing to obey the Statutes and Judgments
of the Lord. Samuel said, "Rebellion is as
the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry." And he continued,
Saul, "because thou hast rejected the Word
of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from
being king."
You know the rest of the story. Saul was
killed in battle shortly after that. God's
punishment for witchcraft is death, and
Samuel said, "rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft!" And yet our ministers preach
and teach to their flocks, and to their young
people, and to the government, and to
everyone else: "No, we don't have to put
into effect and obey God's Statutes and
Judgments!" Brother, Sister, they are
tragically wrong, and our whole nation is in
trouble because of it.

WHAT IF THE DOPE CAUSESDEATH?

If death is caused by the drug or its
addiction, the drug supplier is guilty of
murder, for he has broken the command-
ment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." The Judgment
(punishment) is as follows: "If a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay
him with guile (treachery); thou shalt take
him (the murderer) from mine altar, that he
may die" (Exodus 21:14).
The sentence is to be carried out by the
civil authorities: "Then the elders of his city
shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver
him into the hand of the avenger of blood
(the executioner) that he may die. Thine eye
shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away
the guilt of innocent blood from Israel THAT
IT MAY GO WELL WITH THEE" (Deut.
19:12, 13). The security of the nation
depends upon obeying God's Law and
putting murderers to death .
. People who hate God and His Laws argue
that death for murderers is unnecessary and
cruel, because "that won't bring back the
victim ... it is cruel and vengeful ... it's not
the Christian thing to do . . ." and other
nonsense. God deals in no such silly argu-
ments, but states very simply that execution
of murderers and punishment of other
criminals is so that "those which remain
shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you I"
(verse 20).
All of God's Laws and Judgments were
given "for our good;" yet we listen to
foolish ministers who say they need not be
obeyed. We admit the murderer has violated
God's commandment when he killed, but we
fail to realize that we become the transgres-
sors when we then fail to obey God and put
that murderer to death! Then God's punish-
ment falls upon the whole nation-just as it
is falling upon America today.
17
 WHAT IF THE DOPE CAUSES
DISABILITY?
If the drug user does not die of the dope,
but is affected physically or mentally, then
God's Law regarding deliberate injury
would be used. It is stated in Exodus
21:18,19, "And if men strive together, and
one smite another with a stone, or with his
fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed; if
he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff
(recover completely), then shall he that
smote him be quit (not punished); only
(except) he shall pay the loss of his time, and
shall cause him to be thoroughly healed."
Loss of wages, all doctor and hospital
bills, and other related costs would be
chargeable to the drug peddler. We follow
this law in assault, in automobile liability,
and similar cases today. Interestingly
enough, we have followed this to some
extent regarding the selling of beer and
liquor! Courts have often punished bartend-
ers for selling liquor to a person who later
had an accident because of being drunk!
Since dope is "intoxicating," drug peddlers
should· certainly be liable.
To further understand God's precepts of
liability, read verses 23-36 of Exodus 21,
regarding the ox goring a person or a man
leaving a pit open and aDOIher being
injured. The principle of liability ~ based OIl
the person krwwinglj,· alJowiJIg II siI:wnimt to
exist which injures tlIIOtlter. With the
tremendous publicity OIl drugs, no drug
peddler could plead ignonnce of what the
drug will do to those to whom he sells or
gives the dope. He would be required to pay
all damages, or in some cases be woold
forfeit his life. The result would still be the
same-the end of the drug traffic.

WHAT IF THE PUSHER CANNOT PAY?

Ifthe "pusher" has nothing or refuses to
disclose assets with which he could pay,
God's Law has an answer for that also. In
the next chapter of Exodus we find that
a person unable to make restitution for his
crime "shall be sold for his theft" (verse 3).
This means the civil authorities are to place
him at labor, and except for his subsistence,
his earnings are to be paid to his victims.
Today, because of ignorance of God's just
Laws, we take dope-injured persons and
place them in hospitals, and the parents or
 the state [the rest of us] are forced to pay
thousands and thousands of dollarsfor their
treatment, while the drug peddler serves a
few months in prison [or none at all] and
then goes free! Many families have been
impoverished, and the rest of the children
suffer, because we will not put into effect
God's punishment on evildoers!
How many criminals would risk a
sentence at labor until all costs caused by
their peddling dope were paid? Very few
would, if any.
But as long as our people continue to
believe rebellious ministers who tell us that
God's Laws are not for us and not to be
followed or put into effect-just so long will
we continue to suffer the penalty for
disobedience. WHY DON'T WE TRY IT
GOD~S WAY?

CONCLUSION
The whipping of a few drug peddlers, the
execution of those who have caused deaths,
and the sentencing of those who have
caused injury to pay all costs of such injury,
even to working the rest of their natural lives
to pay it off, would end illegal drug traffic in
a matter of weeks in any state or DatioB in
which it were tried. All of God's I..aws,
Statutes, aDd JIIdgmeats are siRpIe,
economical, ••• dft:d:i.1Ie •••• wws to tile
problem of (:I iu.MaJ jatice. To rdiIse to lISle
His Laws is 10 inIpIy that -..: are more iBId-
ligent than God is. BId fnJIu. tile fruits of our
man-made laws, it is otw-.s that we are
not as inteIIiF-t as we imagine.

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answers to tile dmg and other problems.
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 ST. MATIHEW 5
17 er RThink not that I am
come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfill.
18 For verily I say unto you,
"Tillheaven and earth pass, one
jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.
19 "Whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least com-
mandments, and shall teach men
so, he shall be called the least
in the kingdom of heaven: but
whosoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.
I TIMOTh? 1
8 But we know that "the law is
good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 RKnowingthis, that the law
is not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and dis-
obedient, for the ungodly and
for sinners, for unholy and pro-
fane, for murderers of fathers
and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers,
10 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 Rtosound doc-
trine;
ROMANS 3
31 Do we then make void the
law through faith? God forbid:
yea, we establish the law.