If marijuana had been legal for as long as you could remember, would you still believe that using it is a sin?

Question

I ask because I have noticed that a lot of people who declare that it is sinful take other kinds of legal drugs to help them sleep and for other related reasons.

Answer 1

If it was legal, then it would only be a sin to the person God told them personally not to smoke it.

God allows me to take medicine. But sometimes God had told me to not take a medicine. So, if I did the oposite of what the Lord directed, then it would be a sin to take it or not to take it.

Answer 2

People have been getting drunk/ High for thousands of years, and as prohibition and the ridiculous war on drugs will show laws don't really stop people.

It is a fact marijuana is safer than alcohol and cigarrettes: it causes no permanent brain damage, doesn't make people get aggressive, doesn't cause lung cancer, and is less addictive than chocolate. So in all honesty I think its better for you than legal substances and therefore should also be legal. Is it sinful...well yes, but less than alcohol. Just don't overindulge and you shall be fine.

Answer 3

Yes, i would believe it is a sin still because our body is supposed to be to a temple of God....as it says in the Bible. Drugs, like marijuana harm our body, that God gave to us as a gift. We should take care of it. People who take legal drugs like prescription medicine to help them sleep, they are trying to take care of their body that God has given them. They try to let their body rest, other reasons may be for sickness or illnesses or other things....those drugs are not sin because they are beneficial for that person. They are helping that person. But before marijuana had been illegal....some people may have thought it was okay...like it wasnt bad for them. well its still a sin that they smoked it....even though they didnt know it was bad. But God has mercy on them....because they did not know.


Just because something is legalized in the United States or whatever country.....doesn't mean that it isn't a sin. It's illegal not to wear your seat belt in your car....is that a sin? No. Our laws don't determine whether something is a sin because all religions are different.


I hope this helped, =]



BY THE WAY, I also wanted to say that if you abuse drugs that are supposed to help you, that is also a sin. Even if the drugs were for your illness or whatever. Anything that harms the body, is a sin. I know some people said that marijuana may have been good for some people who had like cancer and stuff....that may be true....and its okay for people like that to use it....as long as it isnt abused or anything. Anyother reason....there is no excuse....it's a sin....even if it's legal.

Answer 4

SMOKING CANNABIS IS NOT A SIN! (Yes, I was yelling. Sorry.) Cannabis is mentionned many places in the Bible where it is used as an incense, an intoxicant, and a constituant of the holy oil used to annoint the Arc of the Covenent (in Exodus) and to annoint Jesus himself. Oil containing cannabis also produced the healing miricles attributed to Jesus.

All the "Churchies" here better brush up on their Hebrew--the language the Bible was written in--and get their facts straight. And remember Matthew 15:11:

"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man."

"Of the historical material indicating the Hebraic use of cannabis, the strongest and most profound piece of evidence was established in 1936 by Sula Benet (a.k.a. Sara Benetowa), a Polish etymologist from the Institute of Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw. Benet later stated that: "In the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament there are references to hemp, both as incense, which was an integral part of religious celebration, and as an intoxicant"(Benet 1975). Through comparative etymological study, Bennett documented that in the Old Testament and in its Aramaic translation, the Targum Onculos, hemp is referred to as kaneh bosm, which is also rendered in traditional Hebrew as kannabos or kannabus. The root "kan" in this construction means "reed" or "hemp", while "bosm" means "aromatic". This word appeared in Exodus 30:23, Song of Songs 4:14., Isaiah 43:24, Jeremiah 6:20, Ezekiel 27:19.


In 1980 the Hebrew University in Israel confirmed Benet's identification of Kaneh-Bosm as hemp, and the respected anthropologist Weston La Barre(1980) referred to the Biblical references in an essay on cannabis. In that same year respected British Journal New Scientist also ran a story that referred to the Hebrew Old Testament references, (Malyon & Henman 1980). A modern counterpart of the word is even listed in Ben Yehudas Pocket Dictionary and other Hebrew source books. Further, on line, the Internet's informative Navigating the Bible, used by countless theological students, even refers to the Exodus 30:23 reference as possibly designating cannabis."

Answer 5

It's a sin the way some people use legal alcohol. Destroys their lives and affects their families. Nicotine (cigarettes) are legal, and I had to watch my aunt die from lung cancer last summer. You can not legitimize marijuana by pitting it against other "legal" drugs.

Answer 6

Hell no.
Pot is no more lethal/harmful than booze.
Sure there are people who cant handle thier weed, same goes with booze though.
(thinking of the poster who said pot makes you out of control and I am LOL cause pot only makes me mellow...how many times have you seen 2 stoned people get into a fist fight...you dont...they are kicking back eating cheetos)

I dont have any concept of sin. But as far as right and wrong...I dont think its wrong espacially when e live in a society that pushes booze out of every media outlett availiable.

Answer 7

Where does it say 'Thou shall not smoke marijuana' or for that matter 'Thou shall not do anything that alters the mind"? Alcohol alters the mind and supposedly Jesus was making the stuff out of water and partaking. You know, even if they didn't write about it, whatever they were passing around the 'everyman' was joining in.

Answer 8

Personally, I'd rather have hash houses like in Amsterdam than the bars we have now. And I'd perfer to smoke a doobie than suck down some cans of liquid "Stupid" and get pulled over for Drunk Driving. Or worse, vehicular manslaughter. Oh and the "Praying to the porceline God" gets tiresome too. (..."I'll never do this again in my life...Until tomorrow...")

It's not a sin. Over-indulging is a sin...

Answer 9

i don't believe it's a sin now. it's natural. you pick it and hang it upside down. that's it, nothing else.
alcohol on the other hand, has to go through a process that takes a long time, and a lot fo steps. alcohol is a sin.

also, in the bible it says, "i give you herb, bearing seed."
you find me another herb with seeds?

Answer 10

Yes, just like I have an occasional beer or wine but I think that it would be wrong for me to drink to excess. Marijauna causes you to be out of control with only one joint, so one therefore is too many.

And I am speaking from experience not conjecture.

Smoking is not what lungs were made for either. That's why you cough. It' s very harsh on your lungs and throat.