What is credible to you? There are hundreds of studies of the good it can do. Also NO proof of anything you claim. That is purely government education... funny they claim no medicinal use, yet they hold the patent for medicinal use. Thats government logic for you. I never advocated teen use or even smoking it. I am for adults making up their own minds like alcohol or cigarettes. Why is the conservative position for freedom and personal responsibility at all times unless we are talking about a plant God put on this earth for us to use? No good huh, every study they do says opiod overdoses have gone down everywhere it was legalized... studies also have shown teen use goes down when its no longer taboo... simple logic to most parents. You have not disputed anything i have said, or answered anything i asked, not much of a conversation when you just keep giving your opinion so this will be my last response...
I appreciate you giving me that last word. The notion that God put marijuana on the earth for humans to use is ludicrous. When we "use" it it literally fills us with toxins. It "intoxicates" us. There is zero indication in the bible that marijuana is to be used by man to get high. In fact it is just the OPPOSITE:
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
Gal 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Notice that these are all fleshly lusts. Things that we do to satisfy fleshly desires. That word in red, sorcery, is really:
pharmakeia
far-mak-i'-ah
From G5332; medication (“pharmacy”), that is, (by extension) magic (literal or figurative): - sorcery, witchcraft.
In the context it's being used it means using drugs like marijuana to get high. It's usage is based on the fact that "witches" and wizards would either smoke or ingest drugs like pot in order to get "visions"...or they would dose their unsuspecting victims to give them "visions".
God said "That's not right. Those who follow me DO NOT HAVE TO GET HIGH. Getting high TRAPS you in a fleshly non-spiritual existence. All the so called God fearing "Christians" who smoke dope are really being led down a false path. Repentance is in order.
The bottom line is that God did not intend ALL plants or animals to be ingested by humans. That's just a silly notion. There are plants that poison us whose effect accumulate over time, like pot, and there are plants that kill us outright...like nightshade or certain species of mushrooms. God didn't intend that we "dose" ourselves with that in order to experience a false and momentary "high".