What is the christian view point on the use of marijuana (medicinal or recreational)?
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The bile says not to allow your stomach to be overpowered by strong drinks. Proverbs 23: 29-31 says \n\n"29 Who has trouble? Who has pain? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 It is people who drink too much wine, who try out all different kinds of strong drinks. 31 Don't stare at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly."\n\nIt is poor for your body. It warps you mind. It has much the same symptoms of marijuana. The main reason the Bible speaks against wine in that case is because it can make you drunk. Jesus drank wine, but not enough to make him drunk. Being high would be worse than being drunk.\n\n1st Corinthians 6:19 says "You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit who is in you. You have received the Holy Spirit from God. So you do not belong to yourselves,"\n\nMessing up your mind and body is not Biblical because you are destroying the house of the Holy spirit. The spirit is the Lord God. Marijuana destroys your mind and messes up your body. It's not good for the Lord's temple.\n\nI don't know about medical purposes. But considering the Bible’s view on the messing up of mind and body, I assume that God wouldn't like the use of drugs for recreation.\n\nDrugs mess up your mind. ask me, the grandson of a drug addict. It messed him up really bad. He was a respected soldier, and went to a madman.
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1.  Drug companies make too much money not curing cancer to allow some plant that you can grow in your back yard for free, and which, incidentally, might actually help someone with cancer eat, be legal.  They want you to pay if you want to eat.  So, no weed for cancer patients, which is absolute shame.\n\n2.  Since people already use pot, the govt. sees in weed a nice, easy way to extort money from people and throw 'em in jail, which in the former case bankrupts someone (poor people are generally docile, since they can't just up and travel - go to Washington and protest the day's new illegal travesty being legislated, for example, or move to a better economic area, with gas being so high - Or pay for an education the likes of which a rich person can, which would land someone a good job or a seat in gov't. - you have to go ivy to go federal) in the latter scares 'em out of any 'revolutionary' activities like speaking out in public about scary issues like peace, or criminals in the White House.  This is why its a good idea not to smoke, b/c its asking for the government to take all of your rights away and/or push you into debt.\n\nI don't smoke.  I think that pot should be legalized for cancer patients, and seriously decriminalized for citizens, because no state should have so much ground to take so much money from someone or put someone in jail for some weed, OR to deprive someone in pain of something that might help ease their suffering - such is vile and inhumane.\n\n...and Tatonka (who wrote above), you are not funny.  In fact, you get the 'lame, sad tosser' of the day award for the latent fascist tendencies of your's which you so sublimely demonstrated for us in your response, tosser.
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Legalizing it for medical purposes would be ok.  Look at the side effects from some of the other drugs you see commercials for.  I mean what is the harm in prescription marijuana compared to percocet, methadone etc...
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ummm I'd smoke it.  I don't have marijuana prescribed for any medical conditions, but that doesn't stop me from smoking it recreationally.
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I thought that conceptual frameworks were for systems and/or processes, marijuana is neither...\n\nAre you looking for a conceptual framework on the *use of* marijuana?  Casual or Habitual?
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Marijuana DOES have medicinal purposes. My Mom hasn't had any complications from her liver disease from it, my Dad uses it for help with his glaucoma and my boyfriend and I both use it to help us with our chronic migraines. We don't smoke it just to feel good, but to help us because we have health problems that only marijuana can treat. That is just a stupid rumor: it is not a gateway drug. My Mom has been smoking it for 30 years and never had the temptation to use ANY other kind of drug. My Dad, boyfriend and I haven't done any other kinds of drugs either. It's a scientific fact that tetrahydracannibonol, (THC) the resin crystals on the leaf base and buds at the peak of blooming that gets you high when smoked, really does have medicinal purposes. I don't think it should be legalized to the general public, but only made available to those who need it for their ailments, like the laws already in California and Oregon. And I have never in all my life have ever heard  a story about any REAL person that died because of marijuana, and neither has my Dad, and he was a teenager in the 60's. My Mom grew up in the 70's. My boyfriend may be 20, and I'm only 17, but I am positive that I will never try another drug, and so is my boyfriend.
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It's delightful, almost always satisfying. Considered a sin by most, if not all, religions, including mine. Can't imagine, however that any of us don't do it. I've never had any ill effects, except when in my teens it became raw and irritated one week from "too much use." \n\nSee the link for some professional info.
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Well, when the government wanted to make it illegal, they had to classify it as a drug. Since the government defines it as a drug and deems it illegal, If we are going by the government's definition of a drug, we HAVE to say yes it is a drug.\n\nHowever, aside from the government definition and classification, lets look at marijuana in it's pure form.As a harvested crop of foliage ( herb, weed, plant whatever u call it). When my daughter has a cold, she has osha root, when she has the flu or upset stomach, slippery elm and chamomile sometimes mint or ginger. You can blend these with foods, make them as teas, use tinctures of them (a concentrated dose), even use the herbs and leaves in an herbal bath soak. Herbal medicine has been around longer than any other kind. Even when you go to a spa and get an herb wrap, you are being swathed in a steaming herbal blend meant to detoxify and nourish....this is also a form of herbal medicine. In these cases marijuana could easily be used as well or instead of the above, because of it's many uses outside the favored smoking. Marijuana is known to sooth upset stomach, menstrual cramps and lots of other pains. It is used in Holland in small children with asthma, because it dilates your lungs, and they think the steroid inhaler ( not the emergency inhaler) is too strong for kids. As far as in a spa, I am sure the relaxing effects of a marijuana wrap would be highly revered. I guess herbs like these could be drugs depending on how they are used, but they arent called drugs when purchashing them at a natural food store or herb shop.So I think it would be safe to say that if it were not made illegal and defined as a drug by the government, it would never have been considered a drug in the first place. Valerian root calms and relaxes, and maybe someday the government will classify it as a drug and make it illegal too. \nI have a favorite Bible verse that comes in handy times like these. Some people take the Bible more serious than science....\n" On the sixth day...God said...' Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing herb which is on the face of all the earth.' Then God saw everything that was made and behold, It was very good."\n\n      Genesis 1:29-31
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I've been looking forward to the opportunity to use this essay in an answer.  Thank you.\n\nA letter to the religious right involved in Reagan's war on marijuana \n\n\nI am not a Christian nor am I a pothead, however, after speculating over the role of the Christian right in the criminalization of marijuana usage and possession, I found it necessary to make an argument using Christian methods against it.  I feel that it is necessary to add that I was raised christian so I do not intend to use bible verses that I know nothing about.  I know the bible just as well and better than many Christians.  I am also a psychology student in college and the psychological information I will use in my argument came directly from textbooks and lectures on the subject.  I have two arguments to discuss, the first using strictly biblical elements and the second with human physiological elements to enhance and accelerate the original.  \n\n \n\nThe arguments involved are sophomorically simple.\n\n \n\nGenesis 1:9-13 Says this:    9And God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky be gathered into one place so dry ground may appear." And so it was. 10God named the dry ground "land" and the water "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11Then God said, "Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came." And so it was. 12The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good. 13This all happened on the third day.\n\n \n\n27-31:     27\n    So God created people in his own image;\n       God patterned them after himself;\n       male and female he created them.\n    28God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters over the fish and birds and all the animals." 29And God said, "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30And I have given all the grasses and other green plants to the animals and birds for their food." And so it was. 31Then God looked over all he had made and he saw that it was excellent in every way. This all happened on the sixth day.\n\n \n\nThese two excerpts tell us two things:  God created the plethora of plants that we have on Earth and gave them to humans and animals for their consumption.  Marijuana and tobacco are the only drugs that grow naturally and do not have to be processed and synthesized before consumption.  Alcohol has to be processed and it is legal.  Marijuana is not.  The devil, serpent, satan, whatever you want to call the spirit of darkness has never and will never have the authority to change the godly composition of Gods creations.  The devil did not put the active ingredients in the marijuana plant and it would be impossible for him to cause the second part of my argument involving the physiology of humans nervous systems.  The only power he has is to deceive and deception cannot change the fact that God made plants and people the way we are physiologically.\n\n \n\nThe active ingredients in marijuana pass through the blood-brain barrier and enter the central nervous system where they bind to three different receptor sites on the neurons.  These receptors are called Delta 9 THC, 2-AG, and Anamine receptors.  These receptor sites are activated only by cannabinoids from the marijuana plant and nothing else.  Nicotine works in much the same way though there is only one receptor.  All other drugs work by manipulating natural receptors in the brain that neurotransmitters use normally.  For example, PCP works as a glutamate antagonist, blocking the natural processes of glutamate which works in opposition to the neurotransmitter dopamine.  When glutamate is blocked, dopamine takes over and too much dopamine in the b
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I am not a Christian but my best friend is, and the truth is that true Christians that are actually devoted to church and go everyday don't even follow this rule.  I know my best friend does't.  According to the bible, thats the only reason you're suppose to have sex, to reproduce.  But no, not from whai I know and not from what I have been told from a Christian.  Christians do have sex for recreational purposes.
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ORGANIC DRUGS HAVE BEEN USED IN MANY RELIGIOUS \nCEREMONIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN DIFFERENT \nCULTURES. IT IS WHEN THESE ORGANIC DRUGS ARE MADE "SYNTHETIC" THAT THEY BECOME HARMFUL OR \nDANGEROUS. SHAMANS AS WELL AS OTHER NATURAL\nRELIGIOUS ADHERENTS USE THEM SUCCESSFULLY AND I\nMIGHT ADD NEVER BECOME ADDICTED TO THEM...\nNOW TAKE SYNTHETIC DRUGS AND THE WHOLE PICTURE\nCHANGES DRAMATICALLY, E.G. COCAINE, SATIVA CANABIS,\nETC... SOCALLED MODERN MEDICINE HAS TAKEN NATURAL\nDRUGS AND HAS MADE THIS NATION DEPENDENT ON THE\nSYNTHETIC DRUGS FOR THEIR OWN "PROFIT" AND GREED!!!   THEY'VE MADE NATURAL DRUGS ILLEGAL WHILE\nTHE SYNTHETIC DRUGS CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE PERIL OF THOSE WHO USE THEM AND BECOME ADDICTED. LOOK AT ALL THE COMMERCIALS ON T.V. EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY, THEY WANT YOU TO TAKE A\nPILL FOR EVERYTHING  YOU NEED TO DO IN SOCIETY, SEX\nSLEEP, EAT, LOSE WEIGHT, GAIN WEIGHT, THE LIST IS\nINSANELY ENDLESS!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!  I DON'T NEED\n"CIALIS " TO GO AND f**k  ALICE!!!  KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!
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Nah ... he smoked marijuana ... God's weed!
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I don't think marijuana should be an alternative to alchohol, but I do think it should be legalized. In my opinion alcohol has already killed millions more people than marijuana will ever so I believe that alcohol should be the illegal substance. It is man made and makes EVERYONE on it an absolute a**, where marijuana just makes people chill out and relaxed. On top of it all I have never heard any evidence that would prove that alcohol can be used positively in the medical field, as where marijuana can be positively used for many different ailments: depression, cataracts, cancer, extreme pain diagnosis, and even Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome. Should there even be a debate as to which one is less harmful, but that is the government for you. They would rather people kill themselves by drinking so they can charge them high taxes on it and keep marijuana illegal to make money off of search and seizures.
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Well, let's look at this statement that Billie Joe said at the beginning of a concert in Tennessee:\n\n"I smell weed in the front row! (Sunday School Teacher voice) Don't smoke weed or Jesus is gonna get you! Ha, what the heck? Jesus looks like a fuckin' pothead, don't he?"\n\nSomething along those lines.\n\nSo maybe\n\nMaybe not.\n\nYou decide.
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I definately think it should be legalised for medical use but it really can mess up your head if you use it all the time....it totally slows down you reactions, can make you paranoid and so on....i don't think once in a while hurts but if it is legalised in needs seriously regulating so people dont go too far.\n\nHope yr good now
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A letter to the religious right involved in Reagan's war on marijuana \nI am not a Christian nor am I a pothead, however, after speculating over the role of the Christian right in the criminalization of marijuana usage and possession, I found it necessary to make an argument using Christian methods against it.  I feel that it is necessary to add that I was raised christian so I do not intend to use bible verses that I know nothing about.  I know the bible just as well and better than many Christians.  I am also a psychology student in college and the psychological information I will use in my argument came directly from textbooks and lectures on the subject.  I have two arguments to discuss, the first using strictly biblical elements and the second with human physiological elements to enhance and accelerate the original.  \n\nThe arguments involved are sophomorically simple.\n\nGenesis 1:9-13 Says this:    9And God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky be gathered into one place so dry ground may appear." And so it was. 10God named the dry ground "land" and the water "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11Then God said, "Let the land burst forth with every sort of grass and seed-bearing plant. And let there be trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. The seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came." And so it was. 12The land was filled with seed-bearing plants and trees, and their seeds produced plants and trees of like kind. And God saw that it was good. 13This all happened on the third day.\n\n27-31:     27\n    So God created people in his own image;\n       God patterned them after himself;\n       male and female he created them.\n    28God blessed them and told them, "Multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. Be masters over the fish and birds and all the animals." 29And God said, "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30And I have given all the grasses and other green plants to the animals and birds for their food." And so it was. 31Then God looked over all he had made and he saw that it was excellent in every way. This all happened on the sixth day.\n\nThese two excerpts tell us two things:  God created the plethora of plants that we have on Earth and gave them to humans and animals for their consumption.  We are ignoring the Christian argument that marijuana is a seed-bearing plant and is for birds for the sake of my second argument.  Marijuana and tobacco are the only drugs that grow naturally and do not have to be processed and synthesized before consumption.  Alcohol has to be processed and it is legal.  Marijuana is not.  The devil, serpent, satan, whatever you want to call the spirit of darkness has never and will never have the authority to change the godly composition of Gods creations.  The devil did not put the active ingredients in the marijuana plant and it would be impossible for him to cause the second part of my argument involving the physiology of humans nervous systems.  The only power he has is to deceive and deception cannot change the fact that God made plants and people the way we are physiologically.\n\nThe active ingredients in marijuana pass through the blood-brain barrier and enter the central nervous system where they bind to three different receptor sites on the neurons.  These receptors are called Delta 9 THC, 2-AG, and Anamine receptors.  These receptor sites are activated only by cannabinoids from the marijuana plant and nothing else.  Nicotine works in much the same way though there is only one receptor.  All other drugs work by manipulating natural receptors in the brain that neurotransmitters use normally.  For example, PCP works as a glutamate antagonist, blocking the natural processes of glutamate which works in opposition to the neurotransmitter dopamine.  When glutamate is blocked, dopamine takes over and too much dopamine i
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Yes...legalized for both. Marijuana is actually less dangerous for recreational use than alcohol--which is legal. Plus...the government could make a lot of money from legalization.