Is being a pothead a sin?

Question

If they are really nice, loving and peaceful people who wouldn't hurt a fly otherwise, and would stop everything to help someone out, and are always talking about love and peace?

Answer 1

No, it isn't. All the people I have known who are pot smokers are as you described...where's the sin? Anyway, sin is a relative concept; what you might consider a sin may not be a sin to someone else. And here's two links that show that marijuana smoking does not cause more lung cancers or any other kind of cancer.

http://webmd.com/news/20000508/marijuana-unlikely-to-cause-cancer
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25AR2006052501729_pf.html

Answer 2

Often pot smokers are "peaceful" people because it has the effect on most people of relaxing them out to where they have no motivation to get anything done. So they are really peaceful. Anything that "harms" your own body is a "sin".

Besides the risk of lung and other cancers (which are higher then when smoking filtered cigarettes), they are also breaking the law. That is considered a "sin" in the Christian faith. It is also considered a "sin" to use any substance (including alcohal and pot) that alters the mind and personality without a medical need.

Answer 3

The philosophy of Materialism maintains that human conscious awareness is an emergent property arising from the complexity of our own living brains.

Christianity was founded by people who were invariably philosophical Idealists and Solipsists. The human soul was invented about 390 AD by St. Augustine, who combined Idealism, Solipsism and asserted that God loans each new human a bit of His own immortal essence at the time of their birth.

Smoking dope is considered a sin because, if you can alter you consciousness by simply taking a drug, it proves the Materialists were always correct -- your brain is the actual source of your own conscious awareness. For more that sixteen centuries Christians have maintained that Idealism and Solipsism were true philosophies. Unfortunately for religion, Solipsism was completely discredited by the physics of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. The electroencephalograph (EEG) discredited Idealism by proving that all thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and memories originate within the neurological structures of a living human brain. This means God is not an essential part of mental processes. The war on drugs is a last ditch effort by religion to preserve the superstition that God is part of what makes us human beings. Every person who doesn't do drugs is another person who won't be able to experience for themselves that God is not a required part of conscious awareness.

Answer 4

Well, you are expected to accept the consequence of your actions, whether or not those consequences are just is often the matter debate.

One should not knowingly allow themselves to become a victim dominated by a substance, however. That would be a sin.

Answer 5

I'm not a Christian but I was, and I think it has a great deal to do with law, following the law of land is important. If that person is breaking no law(say they live in Amsterdam), I don't think its specifically a sin.

Answer 6

I think so, only because it's illegal. There's a verse that also says "they wouldn't repent of their sorceries" and sorceries in the original text means drug abuse. This is in one of the "you're going to hell" lists - I think in the New Testament.

Answer 7

Haha I haven't read one thing about pot in the Bible. I think its an excellent way to wind down after our stressful lives on this terrible planet. But please don't be a "pothead", they are so annoying, just be yourself.

Answer 8

HA! I found verses in the bible that support the right to smoke:

From the Book of Genesis:

11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb [that] yields seed, [and] the fruit tree [that] yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed [is] in itself, on the earth"; and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, the herb [that] yields seed according to its kind, and the tree [that] yields fruit, whose seed [is] in itself according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb [that] yields seed which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.

Answer 9

How nice they are is immaterial to the initial question.

Rom 13:1-5
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Heb 13:17
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

In other words, obey the law. This is a clear command, and disobeying the word of God is a sin.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 10

that's nice..... but yes it's still a sin. and so is getting drunk and doing anything that alters your thinking.

it doesn't matter if it's the only sin that you do, a sin is still a sin.