Americans Want Pot

Pot should absolutely be legal. Just like with anything, it is the parents job to teach their young how to handle and enjoy certain things in life. Once you force the law to be the parents, you are doing more harm than good for society.

Both of my parents smoked when I was growing up. They tried to keep it from us, but we were aware. Pops owns a successful business, brings home ~250k/year (not gloating, just benchmarking) and still smokes.

My brother and I both smoke. I went to college, got an engineering degree, and started my own business. My younger brother was able to buy his first house at age 21.

Please, explain to me again how parents' use of marijuana ruins children's lives......

Naively Holier-than-thou much?

I'm sure you help other people in other countries a whole lot.

That percentage probably increases by 5 to 10 percent annually as people who bought the war on drugs and other propaganda pass away more and more.

Thank you. Both of parents also toked, my dad almost everyday. I smoke weed every day and so does my brother. We didn't go to college, instead worked our asses off. We both own homes, I bought mine at 22 and he purchased his when he was 21. I'm married and have nice things, they don't mean anything but to people here it can be a reference. Marijuana doesn't automatically do ANYTHING to you. It simply makes you more like yourself. If you're a fuck off when sober, you'll be a bigger one when high. People that give it a bad name generalize the sterotype far too much.

So glad to see that Chong fella say that the DEA will be no more in the future.

Such a waste of money for the US taxpayer on such a fascist organization.

Hate to see people lose jobs, but he is right, the DEA has got to go and never should have existed in the first place.

Wow, you guys must have so many earthly possessions! That must make you really important according to American standards! You certainly have it all figured out :)I think a pat on the back is in order?!?!

Too bad the only thing that will matter in the end is your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not the house, car, vacation home, college etc...

You folks seem to be missing the point...

And also praise him for his natural remedies that he has provided for the world instead of worshiping the evil sorcerers and ingesting their poisons.

Wikipedia
The word pharmacy is derived from its root word pharma which was a term used since the 15th–17th centuries. However, the original Greek roots from "Pharmakos" imply sorcery or even poison.

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Mr. Anonymous 28082258, I think you are the Messiah!

I await your arrival!

But pot IS the plant not some chemically manipulated portion of one.

Y'all should try putting God first instead of putting your selfish pleasures first.

Before you do something think: Would God approve of what I'm doing? Am I glorifying God by my actions? Is this action I'm about to do going to give off the message that I live by God's standards?

It's called a conscience folks.

And who are you to tell me that smoking a natural herb/plant is against 'God's' standards?

What are 'God's' standards? Please provide me with a verifiable and undeniable list of exactly what 'God' approves and disapproves? Can't do this? Well then you cannot play the 'God' card then can you? Maybe 'God' does not approve of you using his name as a means for forcing your own individual and subjective sense of morality onto others when they should be arriving at their own conclusions? Did you ever think about that?

P.S. the definition of 'conscience' is as follows:

- an inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives


I don't see any mention of 'God' in the definition of conscience. What makes you believe it's supposed to be about an external deity's judgement and not YOUR OWN SENSE OF JUDGEMENT. Do atheists have no conscience and no sense of right or wrong if they don't believe in 'God'? Ever heard of the Golden Rule? Or Empathy?

Why does there have to be two extreme sides for everything. Maybe you guys are all wrong. Maybe all you potheads really are wasting your lives away by not being in this reality everyday. Maybe it is wrong to drug yourself just to get through the day / relax / have fun / alleviate pain.

And maybe all you Jesus freaks should look in the mirror. Maybe its not any of your business what someone else does to their own body. Maybe you should think about drugs the next time you eat a big mac, which has dozens of chemicals added to it to make it addictive and activate receptors in your brain to make you enjoy the taste. Maybe you guys are hypocrites for being vehemently opposed to marijuana but pro-war.

Most of you are total losers. Especially Brief. What a fag

If those poor little kids want to grow some weed, and make some money, they are by all means welcome to do so. Unless there is some African Dictator hell bent on controlling all aspects of society..... Sound Familiar?

Jesus smoked weed too, so go get educated.

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Jesus was sinless. This is not a joke, your eternal soul rests on the sinless sacrifice of Jesus Christ and you're making a mockery of it.

BACK UNDER YOUR BRIDGE!

Go figure, someone has cheated the percentages?

The Christian you just described is the typical FAKE American Christian. Not a real Christian. Most are clueless and think they're only a Christian because they go to a church on Sunday.

That's like me saying I'm a car because I stand in a garage sometimes.

Smoking weed is not a sin.

You get offended why? Is it because I tell you that what you're doing is wrong? Do you get adjitated because I rock your cozy little world where you think you're actions have no consequences?

Is there a little voice in the back of your mind that agrees with me that you should not be doing drugs?

I'm just giving my point of view on the subject.

Is smoking weed a sin? Although the Bible does not address marijuana directly, it does discuss other mind-altering drugs. Specifically, the Bible addresses the use of drugs in the book of Galatians:

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

So, where are the drugs mentioned in this verse? Actually, the word translated "sorcery" is the Greek word pharmakeia,4 from which we get the English word "pharmacy." The primary meaning is "the use or the administering of drugs" (usually associated with sorcery or idolatry). Since this verse comes from a list of things that, if practiced, would preclude one from heaven, this should be a reasonably strong suggestion that the Christian should not practice drug use. In addition, the book of Revelation lists drug use as one of the things for which the unrepentant will suffer the wrath of God.

4.Thayer's Greek Definitions
pharmakeia φαρμακεία (Strong's #G5331)
1.the use or the administering of drugs
2.poisoning
3.sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it
4.metaphorically the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

Most of the anti-marijuana crowd is too uninformed about the subject matter to form an educated opinion about it. They don't understand the criminal justice system and the economic cost of marijuana's status of being illegal. The cost of enforcement, the cost of adjudication, incarceration, probation, etc. The socioeconomic cost of individuals having their records tarnished and lost wages / employment from ingesting a substance that is much safer than alcohol. They'd rather pay $25,000 a year of taxpayers' money to lock up a drug user for a probation violation than spend $5,000 to give that same individual addiction counseling / treatment to address the 'issue' in an effective matter. How many billions of dollars in taxable sales are being lost due to marijuana sales being forced to occur on the black market / behind the scenes? Meanwhile your precious Johnny is buying marijuana from his friend in middle school because there's no business owner behind a counter asking him for his I.D. 30+ years of the war on drugs and particularly marijuana and what has changed since that time? Nothing. Drug use remains steady. How many more billions and billions of dollars shall we waste when it has already become abundantly clear that our model of drug enforcement is flawed and destined for nothing but never-ending failure?

L.E.A.P. (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)

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no, you're a troll.

To answer your question, no - smoking weed is still not a sin.

You are really stretching things with your "translation" of the bible.

Is the consumption of wine at our communions a sin?

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I still insist Anonymous 28082258 is the Messiah!. All bow down to Mr. Anonymous 28082258. All bow down!