Is doing drugs a sin?

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Is doing drugs a sin? If it is, where is that captured in either the catechism or biblically? Also, if it is, then what makes alcohol different? If drinking moderately is ok then is doing just a little bit of cocaine or smoking a little bit of marijuana ok - you know - not to get really high, just to be social. I was on a walk the other day and was pondering all this…🤷
 
Catehcism:

2291 The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offence. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.
 
soccerdad57 said:
Is doing drugs a sin? If it is, where is that captured in either the catechism or biblically? Also, if it is, then what makes alcohol different? If drinking moderately is ok then is doing just a little bit of cocaine or smoking a little bit of marijuana ok - you know - not to get really high, just to be social. I was on a walk the other day and was pondering all this…🤷
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Doing a little cocaine to be social. O-kay. 😉
 
You are introducing drugs into the temple of the Holy Spirit, for the purpose and sake of personal pleasure. I dunno., what do you think?
 
domandcarols said:
Doing a little cocaine to be social. O-kay. 😉
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Maybe once, twice, and heck, every day, too? Just to be social 😉

To be serious, yes, of course it’s a sin. Not even to mention harmful if not prescribed by a doctor (which I doubt ever will).
 
soccerdad57 said:
If drinking moderately is ok then is doing just a little bit of cocaine or smoking a little bit of marijuana ok - you know - not to get really high, just to be social.
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I know you don’t think that way, but it IS that type of thinking which heeds to most trouble, both physically, morally, and spiritually.
 
domandcarols said:
Doing a little cocaine to be social. O-kay. 😉
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This comment can be read as approval. :eek: For a moment I was simple-minded enough to feel incredulous!
Unquestionably meant to be friendly sarcasm, but very young members (or somebody under the influence, or someone who has just woken up) mightn’t catch that? A wink is conspiratorial.
We didn’t see you roll you eyes. 🙂
Maybe I’d best go back to sleep!
 
Well, let me mention that God also holds you to man’s just laws too. So, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and you are defiling that temple when you do “a little bit” of cocaine or marijuana. And God does not want you taking that temple of the Holy Spirit, damaging it in any way with excess, or having it wind up in jail.

God holds you to temporal obligations too.
 
Trishie said:
This comment can be read as approval. :eek: For a moment I was simple-minded enough to feel incredulous!
Unquestionably meant to be friendly sarcasm, but very young members (or somebody under the influence, or someone who has just woken up) mightn’t catch that? A wink is conspiratorial.
We didn’t see you roll you eyes. 🙂
Maybe I’d best go back to sleep!
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Lol, yes it was sarcasm! I didn’t mean to be agreeing. xD I know it’s not funny at all but I found it a bit weird that he thinks a little bit of cocaine is no big deal. Cocaine is very dangerous and not something to mess around with! Also it’s very addictive and I doubt anyone could stick to taking it “just a bit”
God bless you! 🙂
 
domandcarols said:
Lol, yes it was sarcasm! I didn’t mean to be agreeing. xD I know it’s not funny at all but I found it a bit weird that he thinks a little bit of cocaine is no big deal. Cocaine is very dangerous and not something to mess around with! Also it’s very addictive and I doubt anyone could stick to taking it “just a bit”
God bless you! 🙂
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Figured that! But someone who wanted the opposite answer might take you at your supposed word. You are too nice to sound particularly sarcastic!
Yes, I guess that’s the usual self-talk. “I will be the exception, and a little heroine wont hurt, and I can easily give it up.”
Addictive chemical substances are mind-altering to whatever degree and include a voluntary relinquishing of free-will and judgement. That is a sin against God, against self and against others, an occasion of sin in itself that opens a person to the possibility of greater potential to sin.
 
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
[19] Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?
[20] For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.

Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says this and therefore we are to treat our bodies with care and respect.

Doing drugs will harm the body, and can even lead to death. It can make you addictive, which will harm you physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. Not only does this harm you if you use these illegal substances, but it will also spread the pain and suffering to those family and friends around you. People that “fall in love” with drugs will lose God in their lives. They focus on the drugs and nothing else matters to them. To them, drugs make their problems go away and they become a slave to these illegal substances.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
***2291 **The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law. *

Yes, doing illegal drugs is a sin.
 
I appreciate all the feedback. No - I don’t do drugs and after I had already posted this I actually found the answer in my own catechism myself. I guess was trying to see the difference between alcohol and drug use as I often think about teachings of the church and seek to clarify my understanding of those teachings. As a lifelong Catholic I have been challenged more than a few times on the merits of my faith and can hear those people in my head still challenging me sometimes -
 
I think there are OK socially accepted drugs and then bad drugs. AFAIK all drugs like wine, caffiene, and tobacco are as psychoactive as the bad illegal drugs.

What makes some drugs like coffee, cigarettes, wine just fine and dandy?

Ciggarettes are as bad or worse for your health as the illicit drugs. Both of my parents died from cigaretttes, one from lung cancer when he was only 36, and my mom from emphasema years later. Her second husband died from lung and heart problems from cigarettes as well.

And personally I don’t use cigarettes at all, but still have asthma from years of breathing my folk’s smoke. Legal drugs damage the temple too. Over 500,000 people die each year from cigarettes.

I don’t drink coffee, just tea and pop which also are caffineted (sp).

But mention cigarettes or coffee here and people become angry.

Could these people be addicted to legal drugs?

No I don’t use illegal drugs, but what decides the fine line between legal and illegal drugs?
 
andrewstx said:
No I don’t use illegal drugs, but what decides the fine line between legal and illegal drugs?
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The Catechism distinguishes between (legal) “medicine” and (illegal) “drugs”, as well as coffee, tobacco, and alcohol.

A previous poster cited paragraph 2291; here’s the paragraph immediately before it:
2290 The virtue of temperance disposes us to avoid every kind of excess: the abuse of food, alcohol, tobacco, or medicine. Those incur grave guilt who, by drunkenness or a love of speed, endanger their own and others’ safety on the road, at sea, or in the air.
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andrewstx said:
I don’t drink coffee, just tea and pop which also are caffineted (sp).

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What is the difference between coffee, tea, and pop? All come in caffeinated forms AND in decaffeinated forms. Last I checked, no one died from an overdose of coffee, tea, or pop!
 
Catholic90 said:
What is the difference between coffee, tea, and pop? All come in caffeinated forms AND in decaffeinated forms. Last I checked, no one died from an overdose of coffee, tea, or pop!
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Ain’t that grand? The problem with caffiene free drinks is that they are sugar free. That makes them anticholergenic and I get more thirsty. Defeats the purpose.

My HUGE problem is with cigarettes. Besides making their users stink like pole cats, they killed both of my parents and weakend my health as well.

What really grinds my gears is the people who claim to have a “right” to smoke any place,any time, no matter what effect it has on the health of others.

I think cigarettes are the perfect drug for the very conservative. They don’t make people “high”, but they are ultra addictive and people would rather do without food than their beloved cigarettes. So they make the rich more rich and are good business.

So what if they kill half a million a year?😦
 
andrewstx said:
Ain’t that grand? The problem with caffiene free drinks is that they are sugar free. That makes them anticholergenic and I get more thirsty. Defeats the purpose.

My HUGE problem is with cigarettes. Besides making their users stink like pole cats, they killed both of my parents and weakend my health as well.

What really grinds my gears is the people who claim to have a “right” to smoke any place,any time, no matter what effect it has on the health of others.

I think cigarettes are the perfect drug for the very conservative. They don’t make people “high”, but they are ultra addictive and people would rather do without food than their beloved cigarettes. So they make the rich more rich and are good business.

So what if they kill half a million a year?😦
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Caffeine free come in both diet AND sugared pop. I know, because I buy diet for myself and sugared for my kids. Caffeine free.
http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/pu...P7vEzOGcUR4OtHC304gCL3sSjPXXixLVH6awcziPrwsNA Sprite is naturally caffeine free.

I do not like cigarettes either. They stink and are expensive for the users. They are addictive. I consider myself conservative, and my son is VERY conservative, and both of us despise cigarettes!
 
Catholic90 said:
Caffeine free come in both diet AND sugared pop. I know, because I buy diet for myself and sugared for my kids. Caffeine free.
http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/pu...P7vEzOGcUR4OtHC304gCL3sSjPXXixLVH6awcziPrwsNA Sprite is naturally caffeine free.

I do not like cigarettes either. They stink and are expensive for the users. They are addictive. I consider myself conservative, and my son is VERY conservative, and both of us despise cigarettes!
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I’m going to have to find some of the caffiene-free pops, thanks for the heads up.
Congrats to your son and yourself.

I come from a small town, very conservative and very fundamental, even the Latinos here are mostly fundamnetalist. Nearly everyone here is a cig-head, nearly impossible to avoid their fumes. Even in restaurants they rule. The county is dry, can’t legally buy any alcohol. But they still have their addictions, tobacco and gambleing.

When I mention conservative, I mean politically. Cigarettes are the perfect drug for conservatives, they are extremely addictive, and extremely profitable, and don’t make people high. The hospital here exists to make a profit, not for people’s health, they ship patients on medicaid off to other towns to stay in the black. And we bury the radioactive garbage for the entire nation here, it’s that conservative. The majority eschew regular Republicans and go for the tea party.

BTW my son doesn’t smoke cigarettes either.
 
By the way, I have been attackted in a very mean way in other parts of CA, when I mentioned that cigarettes are not such a good thing.

“Smokers have thern rights”, they tell me. Rights that trump all others.
 
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