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Seen. Give thanks for your reply.CaptainXeroid said:I concur with NetDoc and add this. The growth, production, distribution, and consumption of marijunana is illegal to one degree or another in the US. The dealers usually carry illegal weapons to protect themselves(no honor among thieves) and do not report their profits as income in addition to breaking the law by dealing with ganja in the first place.
I have never smoked it or anything else, and I have no intentions to suck on the end of something burning, so the only comment I can make on whether it's bad for me is that mankind has known since the caveman days that breathing smoke was bad for people. Beats me why anyone has purposely done it since.
:clapNetDoc said:The use of marijuana is not covered in the scriptures except as it applies to obeying the local authorities.
I hate ANYTHING that affects my mind, excepting of course my seeming addiction to hyperbaric Nitrogen.
Not directly, that is.NetDoc said:The use of marijuana is not covered in the scriptures except as it applies to obeying the local authorities.
Why is marijuana less honorable, pure, lovely, reputable or praiseworthy than any other crop? Do you think Jesus didn't wear cloth made of it or fry His food in it's oil?Linus said:Not directly, that is.
Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
I would hardly say that marijuana is either honorable, pure, lovely, of good repute, or praiseworthy.
I think that covers it too, Doc.
This is not true. The scriptures cover this quite clearly. This is actually repeated several times:NetDoc said:The use of marijuana is not covered in the scriptures except as it applies to obeying the local authorities.
I hate ANYTHING that affects my mind, excepting of course my seeming addiction to hyperbaric Nitrogen.
Yes I do. That's why I think it should be legalized. Marijuana in and of itself is no more evil that tobacco, wheat, or corn. It's a plant that grows, and people use it is many different ways.JAHLion said:Seen. Give thanks for your reply.
But did you know that ganja has medicinal effects?
I beg to differ with you NetDoc, In all of the following scriptures the words "witchcraft" and "sorcery" are translated from the original greek "pharmakia", or literally drug abuse.NetDoc said:The use of marijuana is not covered in the scriptures except as it applies to obeying the local authorities.
I hate ANYTHING that affects my mind, excepting of course my seeming addiction to hyperbaric Nitrogen.
I was speaking in terms ofm the smoking of marijuana. Sorry I didn't clarify. I meant that I don't think that the abuse marijuana is not exactly honorable (with the exception of medicinal purposes). There is obviously nothing wrong with the plant itself.Seyorni said:Why is marijuana less honorable, pure, lovely, reputable or praiseworthy than any other crop? Do you think Jesus didn't wear cloth made of it or fry His food in it's oil?
Unlike such tawdry crops as apples, cotton or wheat; cannabis has multiple uses -- Fiber for cloth, cordage and paper; oil for cooking; drugs for anorexia, pain, glaucoma & al.
Cannabis is a plant, plain and simple. Granted, the plants may appear somewhat unkempt, to some eyes, and not qualify as "lovely," but loveliness isn't everything.
Poppies and foxgloves are lovely, but the former yields a drug that is both useful and eminently abusable; the latter a useful drug that is frankly dangerous. Grapes are lovely and edible, but are frequently fermented into a much-abused drug. Iron can be forged into a cooking-pot -- or a sword.
Anything can be abused. The dishonor is not in the resource itself, but in ourselves, and the use we make of it.
Sabio -Sabio said:So my take on this is that the Bible clearly warns us that drug abuse is a sin.
Sabio
Well I think there is a distinction drawn, the bible calls alchohol; "wine", "beer", "strong drink", but does not seem to refer to it in the same catagory as pharmakia (sorcery, witchcraft), or as being used for sorcery or witchcraft.Engyo said:Sabio -
Can you explain the differences , scripturally, between drug abuse and alcohol abuse? People seem to draw distinctions between abuse of one intoxicant, alcohol, and abuse of most/all other intoxicants. Is there some scriptural reason for this? I can't find a logical one.
God put the cannabis plant here for a purpose, it has many uses including medicinal. But just like any other substance it can be used for good (medicine) or evil (drug abuse) according to our free will.Linus said:I was speaking in terms ofm the smoking of marijuana. Sorry I didn't clarify. I meant that I don't think that the abuse marijuana is not exactly honorable (with the exception of medicinal purposes). There is obviously nothing wrong with the plant itself.
I agree.Sabio said:God put the cannabis plant here for a purpose, it has many uses including medicinal. But just like any other substance it can be used for good (medicine) or evil (drug abuse) according to our free will.