PRAY WITH US about marijuana-financed education: Father God, from You and through You and to You are all good things. Without You, we can do nothing. Do not let Belize start a course that will lead to the destruction for the next generation. So turn the hearts of fathers and leaders to them instead. Bless drug dealers by turning them from their wicked ways, not affirming them.
Lead our new government in paths of righteousness instead of destruction. For You say that righteousness exalts a nation. Show our leaders Your plans to prosper us and not to harm us. And plans to give our next generation a hope and a future. Teach them Your ways that lead to life, and life abundantly. In Jesus’ name, amen.
PRAYER ALERT: Marijuana-Financed Education—Blessing or Curse?
Minister of New Growth Industries Kareem Musa has proposed that Belize legalize marijuana. Musa acknowledges that marijuana is a problem, but says that we can turn it into an “economic benefit” by legalizing it. Specifically, he points to “cannabis tourism” from cruise ships that would bring “millions of dollars” into our economy.
Knowing that churches would oppose it, Musa offered a 10% tax on marijuana that would go directly to education. More than 80% of Belizean schools are church schools. But if we let drug money finance our schools, drug money will influence what we teach. We are trying to teach kids to make an honest living without resorting to the temptation of lucrative drug-dealing. Now do we call drug dealing an honest living?
Musa says yes. He wants to give marijuana industry jobs to those in prison for marijuana offenses. In effect the government would be rewarding those who break the law. The same goes for drug dealers who are breaking the law but not getting caught. Suddenly their crimes would become legal. The government would treat criminals as benefactors to the students they have been corrupting with this brain-damaging drug. What will stop it from legalizing cocaine and heroin for more “economic benefit”?
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