Name.----There shall be a General Commission on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs in The United Methodist Church.
Purpose.----The primary purpose of the General Commission on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs shall be to reduce the use, abuse, and addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. These drugs are so destructive of human health, families, and society that they should be used only under the supervision of a licensed physician. All means should be used to reduce consumption and the ensuing damage: religious conversion, abstinence, abolish advertising, lower driving alcohol blood levels, mandated drug rehabilitation, divestiture from alcohol and tobacco production, stop selling alcohol and tobacco on United Methodist Church property, providing abstinence rehabilitation programs for employees and members, replacing employees who continue to use, putting members back as constituents who continue to use and ordained back on trial who continue to use.
General Conference Webmaster: Susan Brumbaugh
PETS Creator: John Brawn
Petition Text: 21015-IC-2303-D$
1996 United Methodist General Conference