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Offline WorldsAway

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #255 on: November 30, 2022, 06:48:07 PM »
Bumping an older thread here but I have been thinking about the morality of illicit drugs, namely marijuana and cocaine. Since there has been no definitive Church teaching on those two drugs in particular, I would equate their sinfulness with that of drunkenness as "loss of reason", among other things, seems to be why some consider said drugs mortally sinful. I have read that there are three degrees of drunkenness with only the third being mortally sinful, unless circuмstances render the first and second mortal. They are;

First Degree: Reason becomes slightly disturbed
Second Degree: The disturbance extends to the bodily organs
Third Degree: Complete privation of the use of reason

The signs of the Third Degree: inability to distinguish between good and evil, forgetfulness of what one has said or done while drunk, an unusual or foolish behavior

Now I do not use marijuana or cocaine, but to the extent of my knowledge neither (used in moderation) leads to a complete privation of the use of reason. Does anyone have thoughts on this, or traditional teaching regarding these drugs?

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Offline Nadir

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #256 on: November 30, 2022, 08:36:57 PM »
Quote from: WorldsAway on November 30, 2022, 06:48:07 PM
Bumping an older thread here but I have been thinking about the morality of illicit drugs, namely marijuana and cocaine. Since there has been no definitive Church teaching on those two drugs in particular, I would equate their sinfulness with that of drunkenness as "loss of reason", among other things, seems to be why some consider said drugs mortally sinful. I have read that there are three degrees of drunkenness with only the third being mortally sinful, unless circuмstances render the first and second mortal. They are;

First Degree: Reason becomes slightly disturbed
Second Degree: The disturbance extends to the bodily organs
Third Degree: Complete privation of the use of reason

The signs of the Third Degree: inability to distinguish between good and evil, forgetfulness of what one has said or done while drunk, an unusual or foolish behavior

Now I do not use marijuana or cocaine, but to the extent of my knowledge neither (used in moderation) leads to a complete privation of the use of reason. Does anyone have thoughts on this, or traditional teaching regarding these drugs?
I am curious. Did you read the thread? If I remember well this has been well and truly thrashed out right here in this thread. I don’t like to see a dead horse thrashed. 
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Offline WorldsAway

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #257 on: November 30, 2022, 08:44:32 PM »
Quote from: Nadir on November 30, 2022, 08:36:57 PM
I am curious. Did you read the thread? If I remember well this has been well and truly thrashed out right here in this thread. I don’t like to see a dead horse thrashed.
I skimmed it. Saw quite a bit of personal attacks and nonsense posts from the first page onward, so I didn't read it carefully. I guess I should have made a new thread as I am actually more interested in user's thoughts on cocaine usage, but I included marijuana to fit the subject of the thread.
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Offline Mark 79

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Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #258 on: November 30, 2022, 08:58:46 PM »
[sigh] At the risk of another flame war…

There is a solid case supported by Catholic moral theology for the judicious use of MJ medically and recreationally by certain people. (see the thread)

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
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Offline Donachie

Re: What's the purpose of smoking marijuana for Recreation?
« Reply #259 on: November 30, 2022, 09:18:41 PM »
Marijuana is not the same as alcohol or tobacco. Jesus would never have smoked dope with the apostles or anybody else. Marijuana is a gateway drug and cocaine's not good either. If they say some people usded to smoke rope and rope was hemp, the kind of hemp that is used for rope is not the same as the plant and leaf that is used for marijuana. The varierty of plant used for marijuana is much more concentrated than the the hemp George Washington grew, for example, since some people want to act like George Washington was a hemp famer extraordinaire, etc., and that would justify smoking weed.

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