Dr. Hamid Varasteh is an attorney active in international legal services and arbitration, living in Teheran, Iran. He has also been a reader of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures for several years. Dr. Varasteh was invited by the Iranian Ministry of Justice to submit an article to an international conference on the subject "Criminal Policy Against Drugs." We thought Journal readers would be interested in his approach to this issue. The following are excerpts from the article he submitted.
I do not want to submit a paper solely about drugs, independent from every other social problem, because all our problems around the world, large or small, are interrelated. ...
Our earth is a very small part of the universe—like a peppercorn in an ocean, but even smaller than that. The universe is governed by law, by an order that applies to all creatures. If we want to enact any law, the enactment should be in accord with universal law—otherwise such a law must be regarded as false. Our purpose must be to live in accord with the law governing the universe, but unfortunately we do not always do this, and this is the particular cause of all our problems.
