Smoking weed/marijuana?

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Marijuana is fully legal for recreational use where I live, is it ok to try it?
 
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The Church condemns drugs in general in the Catechism, yet I feel that is vague. Caffeine is a drug. Alcohol is a drug. It’s hard to say where the line is drawn, but I’d imagine that if it isn’t abused and is legal, it’d be fine.
 
Like drinking, the effects of THC cloud our judgement. We should not need or require an artificial high when we are with God.
 
I looked into this a while ago. God wants us to not become “drunk” in a way that gives us a false sense of reality, Gods creation.

I used to reason that cannabis helped me with my ADHD, and it did in a way. There is scripture that talks about using all of Gods seed bearing plants.

But ultimately its use makes foggy, our perception. We don’t get to see Gods creation in all its glory, if we are stoned. This is still confusing, because when I was using, I had a clearer perspective. I was less violent because I could understand my wife’s point if view or at least understand that we have a difference of opinion. Either way I wouldn’t resort to violence. So in a way, using helped me to see Gods glory more clearly. When sober, I get caught up on all the small facts, and only see one perspective, mathematically coming to a simple conclusion on complex topics. Only seeing one answer which I would deem the truth, but cannabis helped me put that truth to the side in favor of equality with my wife.

Now, after many years I’ve learned to trust in God and have quit. I feel like I would use again if find myself becom3ing violent. I know that when i am like that, I am falling from grace, walking away from the love of God and trusting in my own devices rather than God, but I think of my past cannabis use a pair of crutches that helped me to learn to walk with Christ.

I started to ask Jesus if this is right, but I wouldn’t get an answer, which to me was the first sign that I shouldn’t. I began to trial a couple weeks and found that I wasn’t receiving Gods blessing like I used to, whilst i was using. My wife and i would quarrel about small things whilst i was using and things wouldn’t work out well in general.

I’m thankfull for Gods gift. It’s still illegal in my country, so I out it down to not following the law of the land. I was using cannabis knowing that I was breaking the law, which may be a venial sin, but still, I was sinning on a daily basis. I think that was my downfall, because God created this gift for people like me with ADHD, but he also wants me to be a law abiding citizen.

Being legal in your country may change things, but assuming your in America, then it’s still not legal a coding to federal law.

Ask God. Trust in him. If you struggle to understand him, then ask your priest.
 
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The SSPX also considers attending the NO mass to be a sin. I’d take their judgements with a grain of salt.
 
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Marijuana is fully legal for recreational use where I live, is it ok to try it?
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Opinions are going to vary, but I would say yes, provided you do so responsibly and occasionally. There’s a world of difference between indulging once in a blue moon and becoming a habitual stoner.
 
I smoked it only once years ago. All it did was make me giggly and hungry and really really relaxed but that’s it. I could still function.
 
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A sign mostly. But sometimes I hear him talk to me. Twice in the last year (while completely sober I might add), so I was hoping to hear him too.

Ultimately, he stopped giving me blessings and answering my prayers. I was walking away from him, so it makes sense I couldn’t feel his presence anymore.
 
The article you linked claims that smoking marijuana is a mortal sin. However, it’s a SSPX link and they say a lot of things, like attending the NO mass is a mortal sin, and women shouldn’t wear pants. Ergo, I’d take what they say with a grain of salt.
 
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Do you have any objections to the article itself? Your objections do nothing to disprove the veracity of the point made in the article.
 
To most people, including myself, since the SSPX line is questionable in many things, I would never use them to support or defend any position.
 
Well, I could start by pointing out that the article wraps up with a serious jab at fellow priests.

“The priest who claimed that this was not a mortal sin has fallen into the trap of laxity.”
 
I actually somewhat agree with you on this point. I don’t consider myself a supporter of the SSPX, and I don’t agree with them in all things. However, this is an objection to the SSPX and not the article I provided.
 
Did you even read the article? You appear to have completely skipped over all the reasons the priests (particularly the second one) have given to support their position. If you do that, perhaps it will provide insight as to why Fr. Scott concludes the article in this way.
 
Yes, I read the article. (ETA, I also read the one about women not being allowed to sing in the choir, the one where they note attending AA is endangering one’s faith, and I saw some other peculiar titles not worth my time like “Drinking soft drinks a sin?”)
I appear to have tread on some feelings, and I am not interested in a debate over the sound judgement of anything written by the SSPX. If you agree with what they say, good for you. I just wanted to point out their viewpoints are questionable. They wouldn’t be the first place I’d point someone to for moral guidance.
 
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Very well.

You have no objections to the points they make?
 
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All it did was make me giggly and hungry
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I tried it once and it wasn’t a good experience. It made me extremely paranoid and I spent the rest of the night standing outside looking in through the windows😶. My friends thought it was hilarious.
 
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