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Offline Mark 79

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Re: Marijuana use sinful for Catholics?
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2021, 02:17:42 PM »
I have a sibling .…

Anecdotal. And I did give you a thumbs-down on that one.

Offline Mark 79

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Re: Marijuana use sinful for Catholics?
« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2021, 02:18:53 PM »
…My brother, too, was a huge pothead.… tempted to do bigger drugs.  Since no one can do that, people ought to hush up about the use marijuana and it's gateway to hell.

Anecdotal. Also see #'s 1-33 above.


Offline Meg

Re: Marijuana use sinful for Catholics?
« Reply #22 on: December 31, 2021, 02:39:30 PM »
Anecdotal. And I did give you a thumbs-down on that one.

Why am I not surprised? ;) Of course you gave a thumbs down. I wouldn't expect anything less.

However....subjective personal experience is quite often anecdotal. No surprise there.

Offline Matthew

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Re: Marijuana use sinful for Catholics?
« Reply #23 on: December 31, 2021, 02:40:00 PM »
I'm not particularly strong on the pot issue, either direction. I've heard all the "pros" and I certainly can't shoot any of them down.

My only point was: look at the public posting history of "roscoe", who rather controversially promotes this particular herb.

As the last several posts PROVE, it is still QUITE controversial in Catholic circles, to say the least.

Human nature being human nature, few people will click on "show posts" under roscoe's profile. I'm just helping them out a bit to gather the necessary information to make a more accurate assessment of his opinion.

We had a member on here a year ago post something against a priest. Turns out, the member in question was literally committed to a mental hospital. I think that's pretty relevant information when weighing "could it be true?" or "is that priest to be avoided or not"? Turns out, he later recanted and was relieved when I posted a followup to the thread. He asked for the thread to be taken down, but I couldn't, as the pillow full of feathers had already been burst asunder on a high windy hill, and now I needed to keep the thread up so people could quench ALL nagging doubts about said priest, because the allegations were unfounded, ravings of a mental patient, later retracted, etc.


Offline Mark 79

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Re: Marijuana use sinful for Catholics?
« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2021, 02:51:40 PM »
Why am I not surprised? ;) Of course you gave a thumbs down. I wouldn't expect anything less.

Subjective personal experience is quite often anecdotal. No surprise there.

Anecdotal evidence in scientific inquiry is only useful in identifying possible research leads.

In the case of your (plural) pothead relatives, that research lead shibboleth has been so thoroughly examined and your (plural) hypothesis rejected that the medical establishment has begrudgingly acknowledged that the medical benefits outweigh the medical risks per se.

Certainly there are some people of weakened mental makeup, perverted morality, and/or raised in dysfunctional families. Such people are indeed at increased risk of MJ and alcohol and pornography abuse and more likely to have marital breakup, criminality, and sinfulness. Consideration of such propensities should be part of the risk/benefit calculus before embarking on MJ use.

I advocate MJ's proper medical use. Recreationally, I'd rather see someone smoke MJ than drink alcohol. In no rational world is that a call for anyone lay around smoking weed all day and then spend all night at an orgy.