God created cliffs and manzanita and poppy seeds and toxic mold, too. Not a good reason to imbibe anything. He created all kinds of things we should not ingest at all and many things we should only ingest for good reason and/or in small doses. Our criteria for “should we ingest it” should not be “did GOD make it?” Or we’d be drinking rattlesnake venom. This line of “reasoning” is preposterous
It's pothead reasoning ... lol
What’s wrong with manzanita? A tea made from the dried leaves is an excellent cure for UTIs.
God created the cannabis plant. (It is useful for making rope, cloth, etc.)
Whether we should use smoked marijuana or not is almost independent of that statement. Whether it should be reserved for medical uses rather than recreation is also independent.
Since medicine has been unable to create good pain medications, marijuana might legitimately be used for that purpose.
As for other uses: That’s another matter, which I shall leave for later discussion.
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.
Nobody speaks for God. He gave us free will for his gifts we can handle.
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/
No, it’s not preposterous, your analogy does not hold. We have no reason to WANT to drink rattlesnake venom, but we do USE it for anti-venin.
The question is simply should it be illegal and should people be spending time in jail because they smoke something God put on this earth... Man makes alcohol and it is far worse for society but legal. My argument is Make Pot Legal or Alcohol Illegal again, I don’t care which!
Don’t forget about arsenic, polonium, uranium, etc... Yummy.