A.J.;
You are indeed a rare one! :)
I think that society declares weed a crime because its primary intent is intoxication which leads to abuse and degradation of the individual. Personally, I don't think using pot should be criminal, but selling..especially to minors.. should be. And distribution of large quantities as well.
As for blasphemy, I can accept someone blaspheming as much as any other form of sin. Those who do it are gonna have to deal with it when the meet our maker.
Again, I don't draw the lines. If they are where I like them, great. If not, I will speak against them with a level of concern that is proportional to the difference between where I think the line should be and where it is.
If "society" is really all that concerned about abuse (of who?) and degradation, it seems a strange way to go about dealing with it.
As for blasphemy, I can accept someone blaspheming as much as any other form of sin. Those who do it are gonna have to deal with it when the meet our maker.
Blasphemy was a capital offense in ancient Israel. Intoxication was only a subject of law if a priest or Levite was drunk while performing his duties in the Temple.
Or to put it in a way that goes back to the subject of the thread: why should we be more concerned about a picture of a naked woman before which a man masturbates than a picture of Shiva before which a man worships?