Nonsense. You pulled out the canard that the Bible somehow permits/recommends use of marijuana by using wine as a surrogate. That is what I addressed.
If you will read my ENTIRE message, I said, and still say, that ABUSE is the problem.
As I have been saying ad infinitum, the people who want the government to lay off medical pot want to let people use it for recreation in violation of federal and state law. If they didn't, they would insist on safeguards to make sure it wasn't abused.
If that is true, then over 60% of the voters in CA, AZ and the legislatures of the several States that have approved medical pot, NV for example, are in favor of allowing recreational use of marijuana.
I said the Bible speaks of both plants(herbs) as medicine and wine as permitted for man's use, not ABUSE.
America's disastrous experiment with Prohibition of Alcohol(wine contains alcohol, as you know) was ostensibly for the betterment of society; yet the observable result was the criminal mobs killing rivals, bribing or killing officials and getting filthy rich from the ILLEGAL traffic in a substance that previously was legal and less profitable. The great majority of the population either tolerated or participated in the use of what is no less a drug than marijuana ; they ignored the dictates of a minority of people who demanded others behave as the little group saw fit.
A couple of old saying come to mind:
Love the people for what they are, not what you would have them be,
There are none so blind as he who will not see.
And as I have been sayin,we ought not listen tothe opinions of those people who are so afraid of freedom that they wish to chain all their neighbors JUST SO THEY CANNOT CHOOSE WRONG..