Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology and the Raw. I have on the show today a special guest somebody who I have not yet talked to in my entire life. Her name is Christina Dent.

Christina is the founder and president of end it for good. It's an organization that for lack of better terms is rethinking drugs and criminalization and the justice system and all that fun stuff we had.

Fascinating conversation about drug use and how to combat or address maybe a better term address the problem of illegal drugs and Christina is going to share her story and how she had a kind of change in view.

Christina is a politically conservative Christian and yet she takes some views on this topic. They might not be your typical politically conservative Christian approach. We had a fascinating conversation. I so appreciated her thoughtfulness, her willingness to rethink and rethink different previously held beliefs and just a sharp sharp think away to great conversation.

So at the end of the show talked about Christians and the use of marijuana. Yes, folks. That is a topic that I don't know between you and I I would love to dive into.

I'm not sure too many people that are addressing this question well. If you were to if someone asked you, you know, is it okay for a Christian to smoke marijuana? What would you say?

And why? Don't don't don't give me an answer. Don't just jump in. Yes. No, you know, why? Why? What verse would you go to? What's your what kind of use are we talking about and why would it be okay or not okay to smoke pot and be okay or not okay to drink or take morphine or prescription drugs.

I think it's a I think it's honestly a complete complicated conversation and Christina and I get into it a little bit at the end. But primarily we talk about the criminalization of drugs and whether or not that is helping reduce the damage that illegal drugs can and do cause.

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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode of the all general I am here with a new friend. I'm going to call you friend, even though we know each other for about two and a half minutes.

Christina, thanks for coming on the all general.

Thanks for having me. So this topic as we were talking just briefly offline. I mean, I know hardly anything about it. I've heard stuff from a distance. I've, here's the extent of my knowledge as a Christian.

I'm, you know, as I'm supposed to be against drugs and I say supposed to be because I'm like, well, wait a minute is morphine a drug when you're getting a surgery is is caffeine a drug is alcohol a drug is marijuana.

You know, there's even the whole concept of or Christians would don't do drugs is a little bit vague sometimes I'm against taking cocaine. How about that?

I'm going to get shooting up with heroin. I think that's not going to be good for your life. Okay.

Unless maybe your tree falls in your leg and you need to cut off your femur with it. Anyway, those scenarios in the woods. Why don't we begin by me stop babbling and you give us just a little bit of background of who are you and what you do specifically with this conversation about the war on drugs and criminalization and all this fun stuff.

Yeah. So I'm Christina. I'm born and raised in Mississippi. I've lived here my whole life and I grew up in a wonderful Christian home conservative home happy childhood homeschooled kindergarten through 12th grade.

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