Sins of smoking marijuana

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HagiaSophia:
Pray God you never need it as a pain killer then - the people sufferig aren’t so concerned about carcinogens.
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One should be careful making assumptions about what other people need or are concerned about. For all you know, I’m taking chemo later today. Right?

Pain management is a problem with many doctors. The solution is not to prescribe a substance that is every bit as harmful as cigarettes plus impairs and damages brain function.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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mlchance:
The solution is not to prescribe a substance that is every bit as harmful as cigarettes plus impairs and damages brain function.

– Mark L. Chance.
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Are you a pharmacist, or in the medical field. Just look at the amount of radiation that comes from a X-ray alone. Or the short term and long-term side-affects of most daily used pain killers even tylonol. Marijuana fails by those comparisons tremendously to be much more less harmfull.
 
Please be diligent about keeping this thread on topic. Because we do not want to condone the smoking of marijuana, the thread will be closed if it does veer off the original question.
 
I think that anything that separates us from God is a sin. I also think that anything that hurts our testimony is a sin. Whether we think that marijuana should be legalized or not, is not the issue. It is against the law, just as getting drunk is against God’s law. To do something that we know is wrong is a sin.
 
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sherilo:
I think that anything that separates us from God is a sin. I also think that anything that hurts our testimony is a sin. Whether we think that marijuana should be legalized or not, is not the issue. It is against the law, just as getting drunk is against God’s law. To do something that we know is wrong is a sin.
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Sometime it is necessary to break the civil law. Truth is not determinded by a majority vote. We must never break the moral law or ecclesiastical law.
 
You can not be filled witht he Holy Spirit and Marijauna at the same time. Avoid it!
 
Sometime it is necessary to break the civil law. Truth is not determinded by a majority vote. We must never break the moral law or ecclesiastical law.__________________

Recreational marijuana smoking is not necessary.
 
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mlchance:
One should be careful making assumptions about what other people need or are concerned about. For all you know, I’m taking chemo later today. Right?
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I speak only of those I have had experience with or know something about. Different patients get different treatment and respond differently.
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mlchance:
Pain management is a problem with many doctors.
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Very much so in the US particularly.
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mlchance:
The solution is not to prescribe a substance that is every bit as harmful as cigarettes plus impairs and damages brain function.
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The solution is to treat drugs properly. If they have medicinal qualities which aid the sick and suffering they ought to be prescribed. If people take drugs for recreational purposes, that’s illegal, most would say immoral, and there should and ought to be legal consequences.
 
ON STRICTLY THERAUPEUTIC GROUNDS, marijuana is okay.

If God created everything, and it was 'good", then this plant has a use for us. It has been proven to help patients with cancer and other diseases.

I won’t smoke it, but I can understand the terminally ill who do everyone in a while to ease their pain.

The big drug companies spit out “legal drugs” that are far worse, and have more damaging side-effects than pot.

Listen to the poster who actually works in medicine.
 
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sherilo:
Sometime it is necessary to break the civil law. Truth is not determinded by a majority vote. We must never break the moral law or ecclesiastical law.__________________

Recreational marijuana smoking is not necessary.
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Hey hey hey. I agree - I hate the drug. You misinterpreted me I was responding to the false equation that what is against civil law is objectively wrong.
 
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.
CCC 2291
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I posted a questions like this on the Ask An Apologicst forum and it didn’t get answered. But I’d be interested iin hearing how you guys think that, going by the Catechism’s definition of a drug as something you ingest that “inflicts very grave damage on human health and life,” we can say that alcohol and tobacco use are not intrinsically wrong, while smoking marijuana is. What do you think?
 
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patricius:
I posted a questions like this on the Ask An Apologicst forum and it didn’t get answered. But I’d be interested iin hearing how you guys think that, going by the Catechism’s definition of a drug as something you ingest that “inflicts very grave damage on human health and life,” we can say that alcohol and tobacco use are not intrinsically wrong, while smoking marijuana is. What do you think?
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Dear patricius,

Based on what you quoted, the clandestine aspect of it is enough to make it scandalous. I would assume that what they mean by “drugs” could be construed to include alcohol and tobacco, but the thing that makes pot different is precisely that it is illegal, unless you believe the “very grave damage on human health and life” is markedly worse with pot than the other substances.

Alan
 
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Ghosty:
The sin of smokinf marijuana comes mostly from abuse and from the criminal industry. It’s hardly an extremely dangerous substance (in fact it’s far less dangerous than even moderate alcohol use in my experience in the medical field). While I would never want to see someone completely stoned out of their mind, light use of it generally impairs people less than alcohol.

Of course you should always go by Church direction on such things, and not personal views of people like me. Some day it might change, but for now, espescially due to the criminal nature of the activity, it’s not something that should be indulged in.
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I’m with this guy
 
Where I live smoking marijuana is not a criminal offence, it is a civil offence. Other civil offences are disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer, parking on the wrong side of the street during a snow emergency, drinking alcoholic beverages on the street or in a public park, speeding, etc.

With the exception of drunken driving, there is no provision for a trial by jury for civil offences. If a person is ticketed for a civil offence, he can appear in front of a judge before he pays his fine. If a person receives several tickets relating to the same occurance, and has an attorney, the judge might dismiss some of the tickets. Once the judge has made his decision, there is no provision for appeal.

In and of itself, smoking marjuana is not a sin. And based on the laws where I live, it is not a crime, either. Therefore, anyone who is fortunate enough to live where I live, cannot commit a sin by smoking marijuana.
 
Well, my take on this is if the Church says we shouldn’t do it,don’t do it. If the Church says later that it is okay,well fine then. But until, that day, I will listen to Gods representatives.WE all have enough trouble with sin,why should we ask for another problem to contend with.God Bless
 
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Lisa4Catholics:
Well, my take on this is if the Church says we shouldn’t do it,don’t do it. If the Church says later that it is okay,well fine then. But until, that day, I will listen to Gods representatives.WE all have enough trouble with sin,why should we ask for another problem to contend with.God Bless
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yeah i’m with her too
 
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