Posted on 09/08/2016 2:36:00 PM PDT by AzNASCARfan
If you grew up during the era of big wheels, horrid hair styles, and the Reagan administration, you probably grew up thinking that green plant you see above you was a really dangerous item. This is especially true if you grew up a Christian during that era.
I mean, it was the lowest level “drug” on the list of drugs, but it was the gateway drug. This gateway drug was to be especially feared, because it represented the slippery slope to every other drug or form of immorality. Even trying it once could result in you no longer wanting to wear your denim skirt. Try it twice and you might swap out Sandi Patty for Motley Crue. Three times? Well, by the third time you wouldn’t even want it anymore, because you’ll be in a dark ally buying an even harder drug with the money you got from pawning your wedding ring.
It was all a bunch of nonsense.
All these years later, it is still a bunch of nonsense.
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
He created the plant it is made from. He didn’t tell you how to make it into a drug. He also created the tobacco plant. So here we are - you are against smoking tobacco, but not against smoking marijuana.
Yup, and Jesus created guns, nukes, and mens and women’s bathrooms, too.
Reads like that author has been on a little too much pot (and assorted other stupid-making chemicals). They should go back to doing what stupid people do, write for the MSM.
He created Uranium too, so why can’t I own an A-Bomb ?
Were George Washington alive today, he would be subject to a lengthy mandatory prison sentence for growing a few acres of hemp, even though it wouldn't even get anyone high!
The intellectual somersaults that the Prohibitionist Mind must resort to in its misguided attempt to rationalize Tyrannical Law are quite amusing.
Self-righteous left-wing nanny-staters and right-wing nanny-staters have at least one thing in common: they're both authoritarian demagogues who would have Free Individuals "choose" between competing (and equally illegitimate) flavors of Tyranny.
No thanks, Drug War fascists. No thanks, phony believers in limited government. I'll take actual Freedom with all of its opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, inconveniences, and risks.
When the State is empowered to impose arbitrary Law in the way that Prohibitionists endorse, there is no practical limit to the Tyranny that can be imposed. It's shameful to embrace principles so antithetical to Liberty, and so conducive to oppression. The ever expanding State law enforcement apparatus required to enforce contraband law is a necessary component of the Drug war, will all of its attendant disregard for the Fourth Amendment, Privacy, due process, etc., etc.
Flame away and Vote Trump!
Nobody speaks for God. He gave us free will for his gifts we can handle.
Whenever you see the word “Progressive” in an organization’s title or a person’s self-description, just substitute “Marxist-lite” and you will be closer to the truth.
Lots of communist clergy came out of Union Theological Seminary and some drop-outs from seminaries included Sen. George (Mr. Hanoi) McGovern and Hanoi-supporter David Dellinger.
Also, Corey should check police reports on how many dangerous criminals, esp. armed ones, were marijuana users (along with Meth and other dangerous drugs, alcohol, etc), i.e. marijuana found on them/their bodies after shootings or car crashes.
The newer marijuana is stronger than that of the 60’s, so the danger from it is greater re distortion of perception (esp. when driving), reality, and effects on the body.
God, through his spokesmen, said that the body is a temple and should be respected and treated as one.
And Tony Soprano once said “You don’t shit where you eat”.
Refer Madness was not a documentary.
Marijuana has its dangers certainly, like most other recreational drugs it produces an artificial euphoria which turns out to be fleeting, leaving the user over time less happy or satisfied than they might have been had they pursued more meaningful and substantive avenues toward happiness and satisfaction. That said, the direct harmful effects of marijuana are relatively mild, and it’s not physically addictive, so those who choose to quit and/or use sparingly, can freely do so. It also seems to be medically beneficial to some people.
I live in coastal California where it has been functionally legal for over a decades. Let me tell you that legalization will not have a big impact. There are very few people who would use marijuana, but don’t, only because it’s illegal. The vast majority have their mind made up about it already, and the legality is a minor factor. Most people simply don’t like it, and that will not change. Some do, and they’ll use it whether or not it’s legal. That won’t change either. At the margins a few people here or there will take advantage of its legality, but not enough to really be very noticeable. Much ado about nothing.
Jesus ... a Mexican drug runner?
LOL. I love how these liberal scolds are supremely confident that they know how Reagan supporters think. Ronald Reagan is one of my political idols. When I was in college, I smoked pot like a chimney. Then when I graduated, I stopped and grew up. I don't care if other people do as long as they don't smoke and drive or put others in danger.
Persons without enough common sense not to use hallucinogens deserve the consequences. If a steady supply would calm the violent underclass, I could be a supporter.
Actually, many venoms and poisonous plants have been found to have medicinal properties when studied. The first antobiotic was found in mold. Some people have seizures, etc and can’t survive unless they get daily doses “poisons”. And for some they work better than any synthetic drug.
Keeping a 100% natural plant schedule 1 when there are MANY people who have clearly been helped by it and ZERO people poisoned by it is the most preposterous line of reasoning and it’s unbelievable some people still accept it.
Scientists are prohibited by federal law from even studying this natural plant while Rx heroin and meth remain legal for children!! How INSANELY ABSURD is that?
Why don’t people realize it’s all just a scam to keep profits?
Stats have shown that wherever MM is legal, there is greatly reduced Rx opiod usage. EXACTLY what the big drug companies were worried about! They obviously don’t want people growing their own natural painkillers. They want people buying the overpriced Rx heroin, hurting themselves and then buying other drugs!
http://time.com/4404697/marijuana-opioid-epidemic/
Robert Hooke was a Brit scientist in he 1600s. Was at the early edge of discovering gravity caused the motions of planets later proved by Newton.
He tested pot and gave a lecture to to the Royal Society of Science that described the social, psychiatric and therapeutic uses it. Hooke informed his audience about its ‘very general and frequent’ use in India, and how his source (Knox) ‘hath made many Trials of it, on himself, with very good Effect’. This suggests that Knox had become accustomed to using bhang on his travels and could well have imported some for his own use.
Hooke instructed how the bhang was to be consumed, and described the onset of the ‘Operation’:
The Patient understands not, nor remembereth any Thing … but becomes, as it were, a mere Natural, being unable to speak a Word of Sense; yet is he very merry, and laughs, and sings … yet is he not giddy, or drunk, but walks and dances … after a little Time he falls asleep, and sleepeth very soundly and quietly; and when he wakes, he finds himself mightily refresh’d, and exceeding hungry.
Hooke also specifically mentioned Knox’s illness in Ceylon, ‘which troubled his Stomach, or Head’. Yet after the bhang, he noted dramatically, Knox had been ‘perfectly carried off without leaving any ill Symptom, as Giddiness, Pain in the Head or Stomach, or Defect of Memory’.
He said the main risk was laughter.
That should put to rest the canard that 'today's pot is a lot stronger than yesterday's pot.' But it won't. lol
Same is true for whiskey. Nobody, anywhere is advocating driving while high. That will always be illegal.
Yes and the bible speaks of healing balms and the need for the sick to have healing physicians. I think the difference is when folks use pharmakeia in the wrong sense, or in the service of evil and demons. A penicillin pill will cure strep and is not sin....a peyote mushroom and chanting to unknown spirits is sin!
God speaks for God, actually. To repeat biblical truth is not “speaking for him.”
He created women for man,too.
Did Jesus ‘create’ strychnine?
There was a Study in Europe some 20 years ago, where they interviewed a couple thousand Heroin Addicts. The study was to find the Real Gateway Drug. 90% Said they NEVER SMOKED POT, but 100% of them Drank Alcohol and Smoked Cigarettes before getting in to Harder Drugs.
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