The original point is that smoking or eating POT is NOT medicine. It's an attempt by the pro "recreational" movement to get pot legalized. Clearly there ARE medicines that can be derived from plants. But "medical" marijuana as it's practiced in the United States is NOT that. It's a bunch of people getting high and getting pot legally on the false pretense that it's medicine.
3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it If this is the proper translation, as every bible translator has held, then the use of recreational drugs without sorcerous or magical context or intent is not prohibited.
You misunderstand God's instructions. The point isn't whether or not there is "sorcerous or magical context" (whatever THAT is)...the point is that this use OPENS us up to demonic influence and pulls us AWAY from God no matter what the context these drugs are used in.
Scripture doesn't say that, nor does my observation and experience confirm that.
“The original point is that smoking or eating POT is NOT medicine.”
No matter how many times you repeat this fallacy it’s still a fallacy.