Did anyone else find it interesting that Kevin Sabet, ex-government-subsidized cannabis (marijuana, if you prefer the historically chosen government derogatory term) prohibitionist and co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, claimed the proposed regulations to re-legalize cannabis in Alaska is a "facade"?

I hope Alaskans don't mind me butting in, but the real facade is cannabis prohibition itself, one of America's worst policy failures in history, founded on lies, half-truths and propaganda from the beginning and dependent on them to continue.

Government labels cannabis a Schedule I substance alongside heroin, while methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances, in order to rationalize persecuting its own citizens: If that's not the epitome of a facade, what is? There is nothing "smart" about continuing the cannabis prohibition.

But give Sabet credit. While refreshing my memory in the Media Awareness Project archive, it's clear he's a good speaker. Backed by Big Government and given a platform, he's convinced many people to support and perpetuate laws that should never have been orchestrated at all. When most citizens hold cannabis in their hand, they realize it's a plant. Sabet only sees a drug. Does this crowd even acknowledge cannabis is a plant?

A plant: as in "God created all the seed-bearing plants," saying they're all good on literally the very first page of the Bible. God: as "In God We Trust," written on U.S. currency.

The so called "smart" people must be extremely desperate and ignorant to equate cannabis with cigarettes and big tobacco, since cigs kill more than 1,000 Americans daily, while in more than 5,000 years of documented use, the relatively safe plant cannabis still hasn't killed a single person. That's safety on a Biblical scale. Nicotine is among the most addictive substances on earth, while cannabis is less addictive than coffee. Don't even mention alcohol, which can kill a person in a single sitting.

Cannabis prohibitionists are responsible for underground markets, cartels, increased hard-drug addiction rates, contempt for drug laws, eroded constitutional rights, loss of freedom, escalated prison populations, corrupt politicians, race discrimination, prohibition of free American farmers from growing hemp (even though communist Chinese farmers grow it), trillions of dollars in wasted taxes, deceiving citizens ... and the list is growing faster than the plant itself.

For me, however, and others who imbibe, one of the most important reasons to quit caging responsible adult humans for using the plant is personal: Because I want to follow the teachings of my friend, Christ Jesus. He's requested that I -- we -- love one another (see John 15:17). In red letters. We cannot love someone and cage them for using what God says is good. We're told when we love one another, He will make the "spirit of truth" available to us. The Devil has helped create cannabis prohibition in order to separate people from being able to receive that "spirit of truth" which amounts to the communication system between God and us. That Luciferous law is literally separating people from God, starting on the very first page of the Bible. For the love of God, it's time to end the Devil law, cannabis prohibition, persecution and extermination.

Further, it's time to stop people in positions of trust from negatively influencing our children into becoming cannabis prohibitionists.

A sane or moral argument to continue punishing and caging humans for using cannabis doesn't exist. The sooner Alaska and America end this self-inflicted crime, the sooner the sky will stop falling.

Colorado citizens heard all the prohibitionist rhetoric and voted. Give Alaskans the same opportunity, and I expect the same outcome. And Alaskans should take advantage of this process because many states don't have it.

Stan White is a cannabis activist living in Dillon, Colo.