[DouglasKC]

It wasn't until 1431 that the church associated cannabis with pagan worship.

What is your source for this?

You must believe that Saint Joan D'Arc was a witch who deserved to be burned at the stake. Her crime was smoking cannabis to hear the voices that led her to victory.

What is your source for this? I've read accounts that she was crazy, on mushrooms, ate rye bread contaminated with Lysergic acid, or was demon possesed.

In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII labeled cannabis as an unholy sacrament of the satanic mass and issued a papal ban on cannabis medicines and incense.

What is your source for this? Can you point me to a website with the official papal ban?

[mugs99]

Here's an easy read that covers Cannabis history including Joan of Arc:
Chapter 10
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The Bible even predicts prohibition:
"In later times, some shall . . . speak lies in hypocrisy . . . commanding to abstain from that which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." Paul: 1 Tim. 4:1
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