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..
Come on, now. I know you can read. Here's what you wrote:
Aren't herbs (plants) mentioned in the Holy Bible as being given to us for medicine ?Also those who condemn all consumption of alcohol forget that Jesus Christ Himself changed the water into wine, and Paul recommended a cup of wine for the digestion.
There is nothing wrong in the proper use or consumption of what gifts God has provided ; it is the ABUSE that is the problem.
There are specific and serious warnings in the Scriptures about abusing alcohol while at the same time permitting the proper use of it (most notably, in memory of Christ). There are similar warnings about food and gluttony, but there are no such references to inhaling the smoke of plants as proper use of them, and no such warnings about the abuse of them either.
With all due respect, you are making that up.