How old was your brother at the time? How old were you?Well when I did give it to him I knew it was wrong and that using marijuana goes against the churches teaching. I just didn’t want to make him mad. The reason why I quit was because I believed it was a mortal sin yet I still went and gave some that I had left over to my brother.
True enough. Regardless of whether it was a mortal sin or not, it would put your mind at ease, and you can get advice from the priest about whether it was grave matter or not. I suspect the fact that you thought it was means it would’ve been a serious sin if you’d done it with full consent (however you might’ve NOT fully consented depending on the circumstances.)Simple answer to your question!!!
Go to Confession!!!
At that point, you were just exiting form that lifestyle, and you still valued it enough to have bad feelings about throwing it away. You needed to get rid of it, because of the temptation it offered you. Sometimes people get high when around others who are high. Maybe at that point, you thought that was OK. Now you know different.But I realize now that while i didn’t let down my brother I let down God by not standing up for what I believe in.
Of course it is…to turn on an innocent person is wrong.The weed is age old and harms brain cells among many other parts of the body.Glamorized by the bedbug singing group…bugs or beatles I forget…how many …got high from their friends …went for a drive and killed someone while driving under the influence. Yes sharing drugs is always wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself.I quite using marijuana like 2 years ago and i remember that when i quit i still had a little left over and my brother wanted it so i gave the little that i had left over to him instead of throwing it away. Would this be a mortal sin? Thanks
That would make letting someone else (of legal age to drink - and I accept that there’s no legal age attached to marijuana) have an alcoholic drink sinful as well on that basis, since how many people have accepted a drink and then went for a drive and killed themselves or others while under the influence?Of course it is…to turn on an innocent person is wrong.The weed is age old and harms brain cells among many other parts of the body.Glamorized by the bedbug singing group…bugs or beatles I forget…how many …got high from their friends …went for a drive and killed someone while driving under the influence. Yes sharing drugs is always wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Your response sounds like an apology for using illegal drugs. Taking an illegal drug that makes one hallucinate is not the same as taking a swig of alcohol. I just cannot believe I am reading this type of justification on a forum for supposedly faithful Catholics. Drugs are harmful and if you understood all the evil things that happen to bring illegal drugs, including marijuana, to the user then you might not be so flip about the subject. Also let’s not forget that marijuana is often a gateway drug (meaning it leads to harder to harder drugs).That would make letting someone else (of legal age to drink - and I accept that there’s no legal age attached to marijuana) have an alcoholic drink sinful as well on that basis, since how many people have accepted a drink and then went for a drive and killed themselves or others while under the influence?
I’m not excusing the use of an illegal substance: I’m just pointing out that objectively there’s very little difference in practical real life between alcohol and the use of other relatively low grade hallucinogenic substances.
It would therefore make sense to say that if alcohol used in moderation is not sinful then that rule can be applied elsewhere. It’s simply not theologically sound to state, in isolation to other things, that all use of marijuana is instantly sinful, since we have to exercise moderation in what it is we do and that it’s doing things to harmful excesses where sinfulness begins to apply.
Actually a Study done at the University of Pittsburgh says marijuana is not a gateway drug.Your response sounds like an apology for using illegal drugs. Taking an illegal drug that makes one hallucinate is not the same as taking a swig of alcohol. I just cannot believe I am reading this type of justification on a forum for supposedly faithful Catholics. Drugs are harmful and if you understood all the evil things that happen to bring illegal drugs, including marijuana, to the user then you might not be so flip about the subject. Also let’s not forget that marijuana is often a gateway drug (meaning it leads to harder to harder drugs).
Yes it is a sin and yes you should go to confession but not because it will make you feel better. You should go to confession to repair your relationship with God who is offended by sin.
At my last confession I told the priest that i used to smoke marijuana and that I quit but i didnt throw it right away putting it in a cabinet in my bedroom for a while. I also told him that during this time I did not use it and since I was not using it my brother asked me if he could have it and I gave some of it to him. I told him I was truly sorry for having gave it to my brother and I should have thrown it away when I quit. The priest didn’t say anything to me about holding on to it… I got absolution soi guess Im going to put this behind me now and strive to be a better person than I was before.It does sound to me like you were confessing but in a sort of ‘reserved’ way - i.e. you were keeping your options open.
For the confession to have been full and complete, I think that you should have disposed of or destroyed the substances in question immediately before or immediately after your confession, rather than keeping them hanging around. To have kept them for some time with the knowledge (as far as you were concerned) that they were wrong to use placed you in a deliberate near occasion of sin, which is unwise, to say the least.
You would be wise to raise it with your priest at your next confession (if you haven’t already done so) just to be sure.