I’m with you on reviving Puritanism!
A noble crusade! Start with crusading against the millions of people in the world who use marijuana for spiritual reasons, and then slowly work toward crusading against those enamored with judgmentalism and calumny.
Are you basing your assumptions on young people who are using pot? Because if that is the case then I agree with you. Young people should not smoke pot or drink alcohol, and the ones who do normally do experiment at a young age talk of getting “baked”, or if trying alcohol want to get “drunk”. I am referring to responsible adults. The same ones who drink responsibly. Same ones can moderate marijuana. You are talking about your past experiences with young kids who have no business drinking or smoking pot.
I have been all over the world and have only known a few people who even consider pot as a religious sacrament. Of all the people I have known in the U.S who smoke the same is true. I personally know scores of responsible adults who partake in the use of marijuana from time to time and none of them are abusing it. I also know other adults who do abuse it, but then again, I know even more who abuse alcohol. It is all about moderation and education.
For your entire post, you really should cite your sources.
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Research yourself and get back to us!
America has been waging a solid war against drugs for decades and America has soundly lost said war.
And even something from the Bible:
Also 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees when it comes to making paper and it, obviously, grows much much quicker. I am a Christian. I love God. Marijuana makes me feel at peace with myself. I love intelligent conversation and when I smoke Cannibis, it just seems to make it more inventive. Don’t give into the racist propaganda of the 40s. Think for yourself.
I don’t know what you have been smoking but you should stop it is making you say funny things. Marijuana is NOT addictive. I started smoking it when I was 22 and I routinly go months without it or even thinking about it as do millions of others who have smoked it and never became addicted. It has many positive effects like being a good pain killer for people with aids, cancer, helps with glacoma and is a good social lubracant (like alcohol) without the out of control effects one gets from drinking. One does not lose control when high one is in control of their faculties to the point one can smoke up and do their job or school work and other things. If you are a christian you can not condem mariujana becuse it is something created by God and it is good (gen 1) Jesus himself indulged in drinking (a mind altering narcotic) and if alive today He would smoke up just as he drank. and there is nothing in scripture that contradicts this. scripture warns against “drunkeness” which is abuse but nothing against use. anything can become addictive if allowed. sex, money, power, t.v., even self rightousness and holier than thou attitudes. but they can also be used without the addictive aspects. For instance about three years ago I did a couple of lines of cocain now if the propaganda is to be belived I should be an out of control drug addict yet I have not done it since or even had a desire to do it again. Further from an eucamenical point of view there are spiritual uses for it as well (just as catholics use wine in communion) such as rastafarians. vatican 2 decalred that all faiths (all humans/creation) have degrees of communion with the body of christ and any truth find its perfection in the catholic faith. so the use of pot or peyote or what have you finds its perfection in the eucharist but just becuse it lacks the perfection of the eucharist does not mean that it does not share in that perfection. a peyote healing ceremony finds its perfection in the anointing of the sick and eucharist but just becuse it is not fully perfect does not change the fact that those who have gone through it find healing in it. Further the church uses mind altering narcotics (not just wine) in the incence it burns. Incence produces a relaxing state of mind not all that different from pot. Further the human body is just one big chemical factory and everything put into it changes the way we precive reality so that everything is a mind altering narcotic the food we eat changes the way we think i.e. eating an apple when tired wakes us up. even the air we breath changes the way we think in fact there are breathing exersises that can produce vision/locutions/mystical experiences not all that different from a mushroom trip. Now some will argue that narcotics are bad becuse of the lack of reason they produce and the lack of reason is a sin. I find this argument flawed. Does someone who is insane without reason? No they just have a different way of looking at the world. What about someone with autism (like dustin hoffmans character in rain man) who can not function in the world but is a prodigy at a certain thing (like math) lack reason? I would say no. or what about someone who is born disabled and has no more intellegence than a dog lack reason? if they do they are in a state of sin and are unable to rectify themselves through repentance. So you will argue that is not the same thing as the lack of reason brought on by the use of narcotics. Why? the use of mushrooms puts one in the same state of mind as a schizophrenic for a short time. if it is not a sin to be schizophrenic why is it a sin to think like one? the moral law must be universal and apply to everyone if it does not than it is not a law just a suggestion.
Excellent post. However, I don’t agree that one must have previously smoked weed in order to discuss how a user may feel or how a user may be affected.
I agree 100% and was meaning to say the same thing. Glad you pointed that out.
(which I tested last night and** two cops passed me and didn’t know I was high so that blows that out of the water**
You broke the law and endangered every other person using the road last night. You sound like your proud of the fact that a couple of cops couldn’t detect that you were impaired by drugs while operating a motor vehicle.
I know very well what the affects of marijuana feel, and while I won’t equate the impairment with being buzzed/drunk on alcohol, I still don’t agree with driving on it. If you’re chillin just stay in one place bro.
I agree, what he did isn’t a bright idea. However, to a huge amount of young people die in road accidents with mairjuana, may or may not depending on what the criteria of huge is. It certainly isn’t near alchol. Even though I won’t equate it to alcohol it still it does affect driving preformance:(which I tested last night and** two cops passed me and didn’t know I was high so that blows that out of the water**
You claim to be a “christian”–what are you thinking–driving a car whilst “high”–who are you kidding–risking other peoples lives is a sin–a hugh amount of young people die in road accidents with marijuana in their system—you are bad news
