Yes it was. In some ways, for me, a journey down memory lane. I broke up with my high school sweetheart six months before I was drafted in 1967. Two years later, when I returned home on leave, now enlisted and on my way to OCS, I looked up my sweetheart. She had a baby, no husband and a heroine habit. This was 1969 and the worst was yet to come. I have seen her a few times since and mutual friends used to keep me appraised of her "condition". I haven't heard anything for over ten years.
Drugs, I believe, are the true "Forbidden Fruit" of the Garden of Eden. The heroine poppy has been around since before "Genesis". The Biblical account is an ancient metaphor for the destruction that this natural substance, when abused, causes. I thought of my "sweetheart" as I read this article and contemplated her suffering. I hope she's OK.
Wrong. The fruit forbidden, came from the "tree of KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. If drugs are the key to knowledge, then you are wrong...
God gave little guidance, that we can read about, to Adam and Eve, in the garden. He told them that they could not eat from that tree.
He knew they would... They were part of His plan of redemption. He gave us that plan. He is omniscient.
Drug use is nothing new. Jesus turned water into ALCOHOL CONTAINING wine, at a wedding feast. They ran out, and the party was still going strong. Jesus' mom asked Him to save the host some embarrassment. Instead, Jesus made the host into a good fellow, by furnishing the BEST WINE, altered from a pot of water!
After the Ark settled, Noah came out onto dry land, and got so drunk, he was dancing naked. His daughters had to cover his nakedness, the Scripture tells us. God had just gotten through with a flood, wiping out all the unrighteous from the earth. I guess God considered Noah to be righteous.
Drug use, alcohol use, or watching TV, are just choices. The option of doing anything, injesting, or inhaling something, which makes you feel "better", is part of the human condition. Excessive use is another thing. That is called "personal responsibility".
Sin is the problem. Missing the mark, as an arrow sent to a bullseye, is the definition of sin. Anything less than that perfect hit, is going to kill you, without faith... in the Lamb of God.