So just why is marijuana illegal? Didn't God make it?

[karlrschneider]

Does't the Bible say that all things are created for our use? (I can't get to my KJV version on this XP partition, it's a DOS search program)

[Burning Water]

1. Try

www.biblegateway.com

[karlrschneider]

2. Ah, thanks. Gen 1:11

Genesis 1:11 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)

Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
NIV at IBS International Bible Society NIV at Zondervan Zondervan

11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
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Have you looked at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com
It's hilarious. ;-)

[Burning Water]

16. Thanks for the link

:)

[slaveplanet]

21. From Genesis

To Revelation

Revelation 22:2
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 yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

This generation,
needs the healing of the nation
to alleviate our present shituation.
inna iration

[htuttle]

23. Better yet, Genesis 1:29

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food."

God says it's food.

[Ezlivin]

3. So that's my dealer's name!

No wonder His prices are so god damned high.

[wildbilln864]

4. look here...

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

[karlrschneider]

6. Good link. I was aware of most of that, including Anslinger...

my question was essentially rhetorical as you undoubtedly deduced. 60 minutes tonight prompted me to post about it. Thanks.

[Stanchetalarooni]

5. Marijuana stops belief in cultural lies.

Actually, the word construct is much more appropriate to use in this case.
All organized cultures are construct based.
The more construct-based a culture is the more it must outlaw all access to the truth, or more appropriately, to alternative constructs.
Marijuana interferes with an individuals normal perception processes and allows them to see beyond and through the constructs.

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

7. Here's One

http://kingjbible.com/

It should be legal, at least decriminalized. Good Luck finding the verse. :donut:

[sam sarrha]

8. because we could become free of Arab oil with renewable hemp Oil. LINK>>.

and the paper companies get free trees off public land to make crappy acid paper

the Cotton industry and alcohol industry, pharmacutical companies bribe politicians to keep it off the legal market.

http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html

[walldude]

19. Lol... beat me to it.. Was even going to leave the same link..

Hehe... :toast:

[DS1]

9. That's precisely how I framed the debate in speech class, brought

in a bible, started evangelicizing Genesis. :thumbsup:

[karlrschneider]

11. But what about dihydrogen monoxide????

http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

10. because brown people like it

in the 19th century when mexican immigrants began flowing into the country to help build railroads, racists enacted drug laws because mexican workers were used to smoking pot regularly.

the rest is history.

[Random_Australian]

12. Unfortunately,

god made both uranium and THC, so you could argue it's about as natural as a nuke (No, really... U235 nukes need so little processing that a good HSC Chem/Physics student, with the help of a few engineers, could make one).
If you believe in god, that is, personally I prefer to believe in humans.

N.B. HSC is the thing you get after 13 yrs of school/ finishing high school in Aust. In case your wondering, we have higher educational standards. THC is the drug in marijuana. U235 is an isotope of uranium.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

14. What An Absurd Concept! LOL Every Single Thing On This Earth Was

made from something at some point that was in raw form LOL

I'll tell you what though, the day you find a piece of raw uranium and figure out how to defy physics and get it to carry the force of a nuke siimply by putting a fuse in it and lighting it, then I IMPLORE you to give me a call, I will run as quick as I can to DU and retract this post LOL

[karlrschneider]

17. I think you got some bad information in school

the quantity of U235 isotope in mined Uraninum bearing ore is about 1 PPB. The rest is 238 which is not fissionable. And I'm pretty sure every 8th grader in the USA knows what THC (tetrahydrocannibinol) is.
edit: spelling fuckup

[Random_Australian]

24. Nah, I thought it was U234 thats 1ppb. U235

is 0.7%
If you had the U235 and really didn't mind dying, (Alright, and it was correctly goemetrically shaped) all you'd need were some sticks, and carving.
The only prob. is going from ore to weapons grade. The Manhatten project took more electricity than Manhatten.
BUT STILL THIS IS A HYPOTHETICAL IN WHICH YOU ARE GIVEN THE U235 BECAUSE IT WAS STILL MADE BY GOD!

[stellanoir]

13. can you say

textile and lumber lobbyists. . .? I can.

non psychoactive hemp would provide us fuel and revive our economy and family farms and it's horseshit that it's illegal and that so many pot heads are imprisoned.

put that in thomas jefferson's pipe and smoke it .

hurrrumphhhh

[DemoTex]

15. Acts 9:5 (KJV)

And Jesus said, "It is hard to kick against the pricks."

Watchwords for my life. Look it up. KJV. Jesus nailed it (no pun intended .. no riots anticipated). Know what I mean?

[karlrschneider]

18. LOL! Hey Mac....I always liked that one.

:D

I know and I know you know what it means, but it's fun to show it to the idiot fundies. :evilgrin:

[slaveplanet]

20. ...

[izzybeans]

22. "Oh my me. I left fucking pot everywhere. Well now I guess I'm gonna have

to create Republicans."-Bill Hicks.

[Initech]

25. To quote Bill Hicks:

"Oh shit. I left pot everywhere! I never should have smoked that joint on the third day! Shit. Now I'm going to have to create Republicans."

[usregimechange]

26. Some arsenic is natural as well.

[Random_Australian]

27. "Some Arsenic"

Arsenic is an element. It's all natural. You're thinking of Cyanide.