This will get me a lot of flame, maybe kicked off, but I'd like to see what other Christians think about...*gasp* CANNABIS! "The devil weed with roots in hell." (I would refer everyone to http://www.jackherer.com , no one can deny that he is biased, but much of his documentation seems more than reliable, and it sure is interesting! Might also check out http://www.christiansforcannabis.com )
It seems like Christians poison their own well with this one. Christians generally believe that nature is a deliberate and conscious creation of God for the well-being of humanity. I am aware that the Fall has corrupted various things, but can anyone explain why God would give us such a useful plant, supplying protein and essential fatty acids (both these are in the seeds which are not psychoactive), clothing, paper, renewable fuel, wood-like and concrete-like construction material, oil, cosmetics, plastic, even dynamite, in a plant that is easy to grow, good for the soil, and used to abound/could abound--all this, at the same time expecting us not only to abstain from its relatively benign intoxicant (while we manufacture ethanol, our own addictive, lethal and violence-inducing NARCOTIC [medically, not legally, it is a narcotic]) but to go to such lengths as to prohibit the plant for any use and attempt to eradicate it from the face to the earth at a direct cost of over $10 billion per year in the United States alone? Are we REALLY supposed to shun it and anyone who advocates it? Is cannabis prohibition based on the will of God or on its threat to several modern industries?
It seems like Christians poison their own well with this one. Christians generally believe that nature is a deliberate and conscious creation of God for the well-being of humanity. I am aware that the Fall has corrupted various things, but can anyone explain why God would give us such a useful plant, supplying protein and essential fatty acids (both these are in the seeds which are not psychoactive), clothing, paper, renewable fuel, wood-like and concrete-like construction material, oil, cosmetics, plastic, even dynamite, in a plant that is easy to grow, good for the soil, and used to abound/could abound--all this, at the same time expecting us not only to abstain from its relatively benign intoxicant (while we manufacture ethanol, our own addictive, lethal and violence-inducing NARCOTIC [medically, not legally, it is a narcotic]) but to go to such lengths as to prohibit the plant for any use and attempt to eradicate it from the face to the earth at a direct cost of over $10 billion per year in the United States alone? Are we REALLY supposed to shun it and anyone who advocates it? Is cannabis prohibition based on the will of God or on its threat to several modern industries?