Medical Marijuana... Is it moral?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Robert_in_SD
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
R

Robert_in_SD

Guest
Here’s a link to a recent ABA article discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow enforcement of federal drug laws in states where voters recognized legitimate medical exceptions for the use of marijuana…

abanet.org/journal/ereport/jn10pot.html

Does anyone know if the Church has taken a position for or against the medical use of Marijuana? Or, to state the issue another way, is it a sin to break the law in order to treat a medical symptom, if you believe that the only way to treat the symptom is with an illicit susbstance?

Peace
 
Probably 50% of the legal ones have such horrible side effects they need to be illegal,but I wouldn’t do it.Sorry I do not know the Churchs position on the medical use of it especially where it is illegal.
 
Robert in SD:
Here’s a link to a recent ABA article discussing the Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow enforcement of federal drug laws in states where voters recognized legitimate medical exceptions for the use of marijuana…
Click to expand...
This is where I run into a problem.

Are the voters the correct group do decide what legitimate medical uses of a certain substance? It is my understanding that there is much controversy and for every doctor who is for it you can find one against it. Then again, are even the average doctor the right ones to make this decision?

I also have some other reasons I am against it. There is no regulatory control over marijuana growth so who knows what dangerous chemicals could be used on it.

Also, smokeing marijuana is a known carcinogen. There are even studies that show that marijuana is even more of a carcinogen than tobacco. So who will these users of medical marijuana have to sue when they get lung cancer in the future?

And then there is the second hand smoke from marijuana.

Seems strange that there is a hugh anti-tobacco movement out there and then there is a legalize marijuana crowd (even if it is only for medical use) when marijuana is at the very least as bad as tobacco (and there is some evidence that it is worse not to mention that it is un regulated).
 
Hello

I do not know the Church position on this drug, but I do not think that it is harmless, long term effects on drugs to harm people.

God Bless
Saint Andrew.
 
Saint Andrew:
Hello

I do not know the Church position on this drug, but I do not think that it is harmless, long term effects on drugs to harm people.

God Bless
Saint Andrew.
Click to expand...
if you’re dying, what do long term effects have to do?
 
I think it’s moral as long as it’s taken as perscribed and not abused. But, I don’t know the Church’s position on it so I’m not much help
 
I find it interesting that they consider it interstate commerce even when it’s not, because it could have been. :ehh:

I agree with Thomas and O’Connor, that under this majority’s way of looking at things, anything productive automatically can be sweeped into the federal arena.

Then again, it seems our society has been pretty well programmed to accept that the Imperial Federal Government should micromanage everything, while state and local governments are essentially branch offices.

According to a Washington Post article cited by a group which promotes law reform to allow medical marijuana, the Catholic Church has taken no official position on it.

Alan
 
Box Car Racer:
look at morphine
Click to expand...
Cocaine is also used medically, but it is not in the form that people abuse. It is a spray that is used to numb the throat and nose for certain medical procedures.

Legally a physician can prescribe Marinol a pill that is a synthetic form of THC for medicinal purposes that is also in a form that people do not abuse… Therefore, since Marinol is a legal alternative, I would think it might be a morally licit alternative as well.

The bottom line is that regardless of if a drug is legal or illegal to take, if it is abused it becomes morally wrong. Therefore, no matter what the drug, it is very important to make sure that it is taken appropriately. It is much more difficult to do with a drug that is physiologically addictive, so I almost think it would be best not to put oneself in a situation that could create the opportunity to become addicted. Many good people who have become addicted to anything struggle daily to bring God to the focus of their life, rather than the addiction being the focus. ~P
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top