I am a weed supporter, so here I go, supporting for believers:
Something that most people ignore, is the fact that Cannabis appears 5 times in the Biblie:
"In 1936 Sula Benet (a.k.a. Sara Benetowa), a Polish etymologist from the Institute of Anthropological Sciences in Warsaw 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."
More points for the Holly Herb!!!
Who am I kidding? I am a pot head, but not illiteral.
But to answer your question, yes brother, it is OK to smoke it.
You are a bit mistaken there pal, you are talking about alcohol, not weed, alcohol is the gateway drug by excellence, because it lowers your inhibitions, weed doesnīt.
Besides, Iīve smoked at least a spliff a day for 6 years or so, and my world is not shit. Iīm a graduated Computer Science Engineer, at age 23 with a steady job as an Informatic Systems Analyst, but I didnīt want to bring that up, except for the fact that Iīm the living proof of my word, I donīt tell lies man.
You may find biology books about drugs usefull too, cause it sounds like you donīt know that tobacco and alcohol are phisically addictive, Cannabis is not, just psicologically, look it up.
You say:
"You are trash you are a pot head. 99% of people who are drug addicts first drug was pot!"
I say:
"Nope, their first drug was probably caffeine (way more addictive than weed), aspirin, alcohol, whatever, those kill more people that weed everyday so..."
You say:
"with that started on pot and are not on crack and have lost like 50 pounds"
I say:
"I donīt know about those people, but when I smoke, I get the monchies, and I eat. You donīt loose weight by eating you know"
You say:
"Star girl you are a pot head I dont live under a rock, sugar?"
I say:
"You donīt live under a rock, but you live under the great shadow of societyīs corruption and stereotypes"
Please humor me and show me 1 source were supports your so called fact:
""pot is more addictive then beer or ciggarettes or sugar""
your comments are worthless man
Amen to that!!! if I was from US that is, I get a little more freedom in my country.
Yeap, Iīll continue copy/pasting, and you canīt do nothing about that can you?
In your comments you sound like you want to do good for your country, but you sound just like Hitler, I would copy/paste his speaches if I could just to show you how similar you guys think.
Peace jah bless
Legalize it
Peace jah bless
PS If pot stopped cancer cells, Marley would still be with us - he'd live forever.
Didn't this start as a religious thing about pot?
Sure it doesent stop cancer cells...but alot of ppl use marijuana for medicinal purposes especialy as painkiller with proven results.
Peace jah bless
-- Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
Former U.S. Surgeon General
Editorial, Providence Journal
March 26, 2004
Is a fact that some Rastafaris donīt smoke it, but there are many other religious cults that consider weed as a Sacrament, our right given by God himself, who created the plant.
Genesis 1.29: "God said, "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food."
Just as FYI: Some people say that Bob Marley died from cancer because of weed, here are the real facts:
- Bob Marley hurt his toe from playing soccer, the wound got infected and it caused gangrene.
Rastafaris strongly believe that our body is our temple so he didnīt amputate. Some would say that is dumb, but I say: RESPECT Bob Marley, he died for his believes, that is the greatest sacrifice.
From the gangrene, he got cancer in his prostate, then the cancer spread to his stomach, lungs and brain.
He finally died of a brain tumor. Iīd say he was resistent, maybe the weed helped?
People choose to do shit, its "their body, their choice" like the pro-choicers lol. Besides, it would keep alot of people out of prison and save millions if not billions of tax dollars. Whats so bad about weed? heh...
I say it should be like alcohol- limitations enforced when you are under the influence.
Peace jah bless
Hippies are a horrible stereotype, those guys used to do LSD, coke, shrooms, a lot of things, obviously if you do acid is gonna fuck up your brain, but not the herb man.
PS: I donīt have bad feelings for you man, or anyone for that matter, I hope you find happiness and peace in your life, that goes for all of you brothers and sisters.
Peace out.
huh? why?
"We of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church declare a three-part doctrine of the Holy Herb, the Holy Word, and the Holy Man (Woman)."
Weed is illegal and it is only illegal because the goverment can't get any money out of it.
I bet you if every bit of money from the sale of pot was going to the government weed would be legal.
I know some one who ownes a pub and has managed over 30 pubs in his life time, he said that pubs is just legalised drug dealing because people get just as smashed on alcohol as what they do on drugs.
Why then, is it the more harmful of the two that has been the more available and socially acceptable throughout history ?
Perhaps it is simply due to ... tastes and fashions. Can a quick toke after a day at work compare to an eminently marketable tug on a 'refreshing' pint ? Can you throw a mini umbrella on a Camberwell Carrot and call it a Hawaian Hash surprise ? Despite the revelation of quotations of marijuana in the Bible, did Jesus choose to turn the water into wine or a nice fat kilo of pure Lebanese ? Do you think a thought passed through his mind at the last supper to pull out a quick skinny and say, 'toke on this and try your best to remember me?' Christianity has marketed alcohol as acceptable way before the modern world governments allowed it.
As for getting drunk, wasted, smashed or stoned. If you want to and can, you can do it in so many ways legally or illegally. If you want to f*ck yourself up, there are a shedload of ways to do it.
On the Guiness book of records show, a guy ate a bicycle. That's got to f*ck you up. No one said that was illegal (plenty said it was stupid).
But regardless, drug abuse runs rampant. Cheap, low quality drugs and the vast quantities of time, effort and money spent on them abound. On the other hand, alcoholism has never been higher. But the corporate giants make sure that the drinks are well made and nicely packaged, at least ...
Chris, your problem is with the people, not the drugs. That is the general reasoning behind any prohibition. That people cannot be trusted to make choices for themselves, so one is made for them.
It is not the drug that is bad, but the use or misuse of it. It is not the sword that is terrifying, but the wielding of it. If you feel that all drugs are bad, nothing can change that, but if you think that you can argue your point on your own, I'd say you're struggling.
I'm not a pot head, as you might say, but I can see that, although I'm skeptical about this holy herb thing, your arguments are less convincing than Stargirl's.
Legality, addiction, jail, government, hard drugs, sugar, etc. can be brought into the 'is weed really bad' discussion, but the apparent facts are that marijuana is very close to being legalized in many places and already has been legalized to a varying extent in others, including the UK, which has no mickey mouse bunch of 'dope heads' running the show there.
This could not happen if it were indeed in the same class physically as regular hard favorites.
Socially, legalization would take care of most of the dark and dangerous elements that surrounds it. To categorically state all drugs are bad needs reasoning out, which you have done to some extent. But it doesn't hold. It seems more emotional to me.
but so were our mental accepted attiude.
explains the, magnuitude of our intellingce?.
but where just staying alive [bee gees].
Alcohol and Tabacco are both way more addictive than Weed, plus, the abstinence syndrome for both drugs is very sucky. The point of this, is that users could resonably let go of the weed, but not Tabacco and Alcohol, people pay anything to satisfy their vices.
Government legalized Tabacco and Alcohol, weed wasnīt that lucky because it was not addictive enough to be legalized.
Hey chris seriously if you smoked a small amount of weed a day i bet you'd be a less angry, more introspective person with a little bit of sympathy for others, peacable thought, etc.
peace jah bless
And no, kids are not buying drugs at supermarkets, thats just stupid.
no effect at tall
You have a good point with the Genesis quote, there are many paragraphs in the Bible that can be interpreted with weed.
"He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oil to make his face to shineth." (Psalm 104:14-15)
"The Lord said unto me, "I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches." (Is. 18:4-5)
"And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more." (Ezekiel 34:29)
"One believeth that he may eat all things. Another...eateth herbs. ... Let us not, therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Epistle of St. Paul: Romans 14: 2,3,13,14,17)
AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE:
"And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielding her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Rev. 22:1-2)
This one on Revelations is very cool, since weed is the only plant that you can notice the difference between male and female, the ones we smoke are females, cause males dont have much THC. So why does the author of Revelations refer to the plant as female?
Another thing is, I seriously believe cannabis is for the healing of the nations, the healing of the nations my friends!!!!
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Its ok if you call it ANY of those names, is the same stuff.
The Holly Herb man
Although the Cannabis have being around mankind through several thousands of years (Kaneh Bosm in ancient hebrew), people started calling it "marijuana" beacause it was an attemp by the US Government for US citizens to link it with Mexicans with low resources.
Marijuana was a mexican slang that was mostly used ammong gangs.
i'm probably older than you
so don't give me any bullshit by calling me little
he spelled it wrong
its never spelled like that
get a fucking dictionary
not even a nickname for it is spelled like that
so fuck you
All you have to do to weed is dry it and smoke it. You don't have to break it down, process it, or mess with it in any way. God is not an idiot, by any means, and he KNEW what effects marijuana would have on the human brain and body. So, if He didn't want us to make use of it in that way, he wouldn't have made it have that effect on us merely by smoking it (as opposed to other plant-derived or chemically created drugs that have to be broken down and/or processed before they can make you high).
Yay pot!
Its funny how people will pick words from the bible to justify attempts to ban actions and items to the population, yet when the bible accepts use of hemp, they try to minimize the importance of the book they pick and choose from. XD
I'LL TELL YOU KNOW I LOVE WEED AND I LOVE GOD BUT THE DAY I RATHER SMOKE WEED THAN WORSHIP IS THE DAY I SEE WEED AS A BAD THING
Weed is good without reassurance from the made-up guy in the sky.
Just smoke it already. It's almost legal anyway! (y)
Positive: it preaches peace and people will be nice, and not murder others, so that they can get into heaven.
Negative: though the whole murder thing doesn't really follow through as it's meant to be "though shalt not kill" though it's closer too "don't kill unless someone has slightly different beliefs to you" also a fuck load of wars have revolved around religion, thats the main thing that I have against religions the conflict it brings, the murders. The religions had the potential of making this world peaceful but all the people that will kill over their beliefs caused it to cause the most wars and destroy more peace than it made.
That's just religion in general though, I respect anyone that thinks about there religion and still sticks by it.
Sorry if I sounded anti-religious there again I don't have anything against people whatever their religious beliefs and I don't have anything against individual religions just religion in general annoys me because of all the violence caused by it, that's not even the point in religion, the point of it is to preach peace and to be nice to one and other and to avoid fearing death and wondering what happens after death. I can respect all that stuff but sadly most religions have gone to the "you have different beliefs to me, you shall die" side of things.
then me and u will be in luck