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Offline WorldsAway

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #260 on: November 30, 2022, 09:20:23 PM »
Quote from: Mark 79 on November 30, 2022, 08:58:46 PM

I do not believe the same can be said for cocaine because of the risks to your temple of the Holy Ghost.
• high potential for rapid development of addiction, especially for free-basing, crack, and IV use
• pre-COVID the cardiac irritant combined with coronary artery spasm effects made cocaine the #1 cause of heart attacks in teens and young adults
Good points. Could the same be said for cigarette smoking? Nicotine dependency can develop very soon after one begins smoking, and cigarette smoking is said to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the US
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Offline Mark 79

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Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #261 on: November 30, 2022, 09:24:11 PM »
Quote from: WorldsAway on November 30, 2022, 09:20:23 PM

Good points. Could the same be said for cigarette smoking? Nicotine dependency can develop very soon after one begins smoking, and cigarette smoking is said to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the US


Part of the nervous system is named after its susceptibility to nicotine poisoning. Is there any benefit to smoking tobacco???
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Offline Donachie

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #262 on: November 30, 2022, 09:28:11 PM »
People have their vices and some are worse than others. One reason out of many not to believe Medjugorje is that the BVM is said to have first appeared to the kids while they were smoking cigarettes out behind a shed. I don't believe the BVM's going to appear to anybody smoking cigarettes, and that's way before weed. I think smoking weed's another vice and worse than alcohol or tobacco.
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #263 on: November 30, 2022, 10:20:23 PM »
Quote from: Donachie on November 30, 2022, 09:28:11 PM
People have their vices and some are worse than others. One reason out of many not to believe Medjugorje is that the BVM is said to have first appeared to the kids while they were smoking cigarettes out behind a shed. I don't believe the BVM's going to appear to anybody smoking cigarettes, and that's way before weed. I think smoking weed's another vice and worse than alcohol or tobacco.

Why not?  In and of itself, smoking tobacco is no sin. 

I was sneaking an illicit cigarette in my high school boys' restroom when I got to talking to another student (who did not smoke) about becoming a Catholic, he said "so why don't you?", and I called the priest that afternoon.  (I didn't mention the smoking.)

I was received into the Church a few months later, baptized and confirmed.

Who can say what I would have done if I hadn't been in that restroom, smoking that cigarette, and getting in that conversation?  (To be fair, it had been on my mind for some time.)
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Offline Jimmy

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #264 on: November 30, 2022, 11:12:41 PM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on November 30, 2022, 10:20:23 PM
Why not?  In and of itself, smoking tobacco is no sin.

I was sneaking an illicit cigarette in my high school boys' restroom when I got to talking to another student (who did not smoke) about becoming a Catholic, he said "so why don't you?", and I called the priest that afternoon.  (I didn't mention the smoking.)

I was received into the Church a few months later, baptized and confirmed.

Who can say what I would have done if I hadn't been in that restroom, smoking that cigarette, and getting in that conversation?  (To be fair, it had been on my mind for some time.)
Haha, I like the conversion story. I had many a good deep conversation with my brother sneaking a cigarette on the roof at 1:00 am. He would never smoke, I was the degenerate, but he would hang out with me :).

Obviously I'm not a good person to go to for advice, seeing as I am sort of new coming back to the Faith. However, I know many good people who smoke, and I have a good friend who does weed occasionally. He's not a Catholic, but he is still able to regulate and to be in control of his senses, and he's a good guy. I wouldn't recommend getting into drugs, because I also know many folks who ruined their life with the stuff. I work in an area where there are needles everywhere and hoboes all over the place. People usually don't start off with the big drugs, they work their way up. It could lead down a bad road.
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