[WVKayaker]

blah blah blah...

Cocaine and heroine are processed drugs. Marijuana is an herb that grows like a weed. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and most other colonials had hemp patches. They used the fibers from it for lots of things. I have no doubt that they also smoked the flowers!

Again, ignorance is bliss for you, eh?

You can be the one to stumble, friend, as you are falling all over YOURSELF with self-righteousness. It is only a sin when one is convicted of something, BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. You seek to find some little crack in my conversation so you can again bend my words. I don't answer hypothetical questions, because they are irrelevant to the conversation.

Read your Bible, if you have one, and give me a Scriptural admonition against smoking of pot. I know it back-to-front, and have seen nothing in those writings with which the Holy Spirit has convicted me. I would not offer my Jewish friends any pork bbq nor oysters! It is something with which they have been taught not to eat for their religious reasons. It may cause them to stumble (Pork BBQ is pretty good stuff, and grilled oysters at Drago's in NOLA are absolutely divine!)

[Publius]

I have no doubt that they also smoked the flowers!

They made a tea from the leaves. Washington would use the tea to bathe his gums after removing his dentures for the night. It was something like a hemp mouthwash.

[bramps]

Is there scripture telling you not to use processed drugs like heroin or cocaine? So they're o.k. , right? Like pot? And did you eat the pot leaves right off the plant, or were they PROCESSED? ... And why do you ignore the question about who you bought the pot from? Because you know that you helped finance a dealer, a dealer that was part of supply chain that fed pot, cocaine, and heroin to children and adults that weren't as perfect as you! But you don't want to acknowledge the fact that you don't live in a vacuum. You purchasing your grass meant that your dealer had a larger investment to make his next purchase with and sell to a larger base. Your libertarian model would be great if you were on an island where only you had to be concerned with the addicts and layabouts that you helped create. But you don't. You live in a society where people who make responsible, disciplined decisions have to pick up the mess that you helped create.