Believe what you will. As far as using it for medicinal purposes, if it can be of a true benefit to someone who is physically sick, I have no problem with it; as long as it is treated as any other prescribed medication by a legitimate physician rather than some quack, and disbursed at a pharmacy like all other medications (in pill fashion if possible, and regulated by the FDA. I don’t smoke Hookah either, but if you do, put that in your own pipe and smoke it.
Well I start by believing the bible — all of it. Even the ones that might seem to embarrass my agenda.