What about alcohol?
I’m just curious
I smoked pot off and on from 1971 till now
I took my first toke in 20 years two weeks ago and it felt like I’d never quit
I’m just too busy to indulge
But I hate a damn drunk
Drunks are selfish assholes who destroy everything around them and don’t quit till it affects them and they are scared they are gonna die after they have fukced up all the rest of us
Pot may remind you of hippies and lefties where you live but the culture damage sure as hell statistically isn’t nearly as bad yet folks here celebrate booze and joke about getting snockered and their toddys
So do you favor prohibition of booze too?
I doubt you do
Hence your problem with weed is who you see smokes it
Anybody here who knows me think I’m a lefty
I kinda like weed....if I had time I would smoke more...it pleases me....like a woman does or watching little children play or snow on the mountains while the cottonwoods and Aspen are aflame
Free Republic is fun ain’t it
I’m not trying to pick on you but why so angry and does your concern about intoxication apply to any agent of thus?
I know in my heart that drinkers here will rationalize this conundrum
Lol....they did in my youth too...isn’t that funny?
Good theology is that if you can do (whatever) to the glory of God then it’s at least permissible if not urged.
Alcohol, at least, can go both ways. It merits, in the bible, being used as a metaphor of joy (nope, Welch’s doesn’t cut it there) and also as a metaphor of self control lost to your own harm.
For what it’s worth, a lot of people who like pot are really hungering for something transcendent. Modern faith so often fails them, presenting a God of (at best) “good morals,” who has a hard time fighting His way out of a supernatural paper bag, let alone do any miracles. News flash, anyone can invent morals and call them good. It happened already, we call it the fall of mankind.
I’ve never had an alcoholic drink and never will.
The case for banning alcohol is just not realistic given its pervasiveness in all aspects of the culture including religious ceremony. I would definitely ban all advertising for alcohol though. There’s also the issue that someone can have a limited amount of alcohol without getting intoxicated. So it’s not necessarily harmful in moderate use.