Dr. Phinney, a timely article. I was "stoned" on marijuana for likley 40 years. finally quitting completely in 2002. That plant stole from me, including money, energy, time, and my soul. I am so glad to be 100% sober in all things. God and His Son are better than any imbibed substace, even if sobriety is tough. W.E.W.
Marijuana as cannabis which is specifically bred for it's thc and is laced with often LSD acid, and other unknown psychoactive substances, even organic bush weed are all highly dangerous causing altered states of consciousness that obviously opens doorways to demonic spirits and is a well known cause of psychoses. It also causes giggling and an increase of the lust of sexual desire. It also causes a psychological dependancy and reliance upon it.
As a true Christ Jesus indwelt and Holy spirit infilled servant would not ever consume. When I was drawn back to Jesus Christ, my heart was so profoundly pierced at my absolutely wretched deplorable disgusting state of having been a vile despicable sinner and having a sin nature, that it made me literally vomit, & the fact that I broke my father in heaven's heart that ultimately broke and shattered my own heart, not only had I hurt him but I had hurt others as well as my own self, and how I had
trodden under foot the Son of God, and had accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and was despising the Spirit of his grace. That only Jesus could take on board my sins and forgive me and set me free. He gave me the ability to understand that Jesus showed by & through his own life as the word and God made flesh as the second Adam he was tempted in every way but did not sin that is also part of our inheritance in Him to live as overcomers through his very example. Jesus wanted to clean up & transform my life radically, so I could serve him without hindrances. Putting my complete faith in Jesus Christ as saviour and kinsman redeemer in all God's truths, He gave me the amazing gift of saving grace and his inheritance of righteousness to bring forth fruits that befits repentence in helping me by giving me the power and strength to overcome and bring forth Jesus' righteousness, through the power of his precious blood to not only cleanse me from my such sins but is so powerful enough to root them out to no longer be influenced nor being bound imprisoned to them & to be reborn & baptised in the Holy spirit, that's why we receive the Holy spirit is to help us be able to live a life to be pleasing to Him, Jesus sacrificial crucified life and death then resurrection and ascension wasn't for nothing but to save us from our sins, to defeat the devil and nullify his works and our self works, in not only our spirit but soul, our will mind & emotions to our very actions, to be able to be set apart & undergo maturing through the process of sanctification and to be holy and Jesus and God's holy spirit came to dwell in my temple too, from my holy of holies to the holy the inner courtyard to the outer courtyard my very body. He started dealing with all the sins I was living in and the first thing he wanted to deal with & said to me that I must immediately not only repent from was smoking weed, but to turn completely away from it & stop smoking it, as it is a drug and he hates and abhors drugs, as they are all absolutely connected to enabling and inviting demonic spirits to possess and oppress, come in and inhabit you and infect your mind and thinkingabd to control you. Our creator Almighty God Heavenly father in and through Jesus Christ loves us knows what is best for us as He created us in the first place.
He delivered and set me free me from not only smoking weed but nicotine-cigarettes and I would smoke up to 150 to more a day! And then from fornicating, masturbation, he dealt with each and every one of my bondages and from all my wrong thoughts to truly set me free, to make me a new creation in Christ. He emancipated me from 'Babylon' and 'Egypt'=the world, satan's system & to die, be crucified to the world & it to be crucified to me and die be buried with Christ to enter into true resurrection life, die to self so I could embark on walking according to the spirit and not to fulfil the desires of the carnal lusts of the flesh, but to beat my body & lead it as a slave not the other way around, one of the fruits of the holy spirit is self control, and Jesus calls us to deny self and pick up our cross daily to deny self, as the works of the flesh are in complete opposition to how our father in heaven created us to be and to live in such a way that will bring Him honour and glorify Him. He delivered me from the enemy the evil one and taught me how to resist the devil so he would flee from me and Huw to resist temptation, to get on my knees and pray to overcome and not enter into sinning, even to the point of as it were shedding blood, that Jesus in me was stronger and more powerful than to give in to temptation and the God I loved and served was all powerful though I was weak Jesus I me was strong & all those past sins were all bondages keeping me in a prison of my own making and choices, that I no longer needed to be subjected to, as I had been feeding to the desires of my corrupt pathetic weak flesh. He helped develop within me the mind of Christ Jesus, my heart was circumcised from the carnal flesh it was cut away and removed. The old nature was replaced by the new nature in Christ.
We have to die in Christ to be reborn in Him in his character nature image and likeness. To be born of his seed. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. John 12:24-26
And these are they which are sown on good ground, such as hear the Word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” Mark 4:20
Luke 8:11-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:4
Matthe/Mark/Luke/John
Galatians chapter 5
Romans
1/2/3 John
Whole bible.
But truly going to seek Jesus as the only way the only truth and the life and only way to the father, many search the scriptures for in them they think they will receive eternal life and yet they all testify of Him, but sadly many never come to Jesus to receive
His life and indwelling.
It is only the seed that dies gets buried gets broken to bring forth shoots to the light the light of the true kingdom of God's heavenly kingdom and of Jesus as the light that came into the world to be filled with his light by keeping our eye single and submitting to him as our master and making him Lord and King, seeking Him first and his kingdom of righteousnes, abiding in Jesus in our own day to day lives that then then grows and can bring forth mature healthy fruits from and if the spirit.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
“He delivered and set me free me from not only smoking weed but nicotine-cigarettes and I would smoke up to 150 to more a day! And then from fornicating, masturbation, he dealt with each and every one of my bondages and from all my wrong thoughts to truly set me free, to make me a new creation in Christ.“ Praise God, Hephzibah.
My use of pot ended after about 4 years of its heavy influence in my life. I, also, had pursued the Hippie Philosophy (if that is what it was) and smoking pot was a big part of that. The faultiness of the statement “It helps me think deeper.” was easily evident and yet ignored. How many times did I sit across a chess board with a friend, staring at the game at hand until one of us would ask the very telling question, “Whose move is it?”
In retrospect, pot, the pseudo-spiritual side of Hippie-dom ,and the false comraderie of drug use, all were attempts by me at trying to deal with my deep sense of guilt for some very poor choices I had made. When I came to Christ, that “old man” was left in the baptismal tank along with so much more.
Wow, I get that! The use of marijuana among Christians is a topic of growing discussion and debate. Some Christians believe that marijuana use can be permissible if it's for medical purposes, citing its potential benefits for pain relief and other health conditions. However, researchers like me express concerns about both medical & recreational use, emphasizing the importance of sobriety and self-control as taught in the Bible. I believe that marijuana use could lead to dependency and impair one's ability to live a life that honors God. As with many issues, it's important to lean inwardly to the Life of Yeshua.
The Lord made cannabis. He designed our bodies with a cannaboid system to utilize it in some form or fashion. He didn’t design us with an alcohol system. Something to think about. I certainly don’t believe that someone that utilizes a plant that God made is going to Hell over it. Everything in moderation.🤷♂️
That is the exact ideology that got me trapped into a life of addictions. God made opium poppies which is morphine, codeine, and heroin. God made Khat - cathinone, and amphetamines. God made salvia divinorum, which is the most powerful hallucinogen on the planet, plus 100 other addictive plants & 12,000+ poisonous plants. I don't believe God designed plant life as an open source for ingestion.
Obviously, I beg to differ. Since 1966, when I was first introduced to Cannabis, I have used and enjoyed it thousands of times. My "addiction" to the herb is no different than the "addiction" I had to tennis as a young man and Taiji as an old man. Everything doesn't have to be political or Satanic. As a friend, a JW, once told me why God gives us beautiful sunsets: The answer, of course, is because we enjoy it.
As documented by Andrew Weil in his first book, it is a natural desire of humans to alter our consciousness. Watch kids on the playground running to make the merry-go-round go faster or just spinning to get dizzy.
Some things are just fun. And if the only side-effect of a natural medicine is happiness and laughter, I don't find that threatening.
Charles, thank you for sharing your input on this. I don't expect others to follow my convictions. That idea is as fruitless as eating plastic fruit from Walmart. LOL. As a lifelong student of endocrinology, a psychologist of 25+ years, and being a man of the Word, I certainly have developed convictions regarding addictive substances. I had a face-to-face discussion with a renowned oncologist this morning, and he said the ramifications of THC classically do not show the dangerous effects on cancer cell development & the nervous system until the elder years. However, once it begins, dementia, and hypoesthesia (nerve damage) moves quickly.
I assure you that I will let you know if my doctor or my wife tells me I am off my rocker. In the meantime, I appreciate your civility.
I remember clearly how Jackie Gleason was held up as an example of a man who defied every health advisory, drank, smoked, and did somersaults until that day that he suddenly died.
My personal experience with cannabis, that magical healing herb, has been amazingly positive in every way (except financially). In fact, the experiences I have when intoxicated on my favorite pain killer is virtually the same as the experience I get from deep meditation.
I love the full passage: "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." Thanks for communicating with me. What is your name?
Prior to the Rockefeller’s taking over modern day medicine in the early 1900’s cannabis was used to treat over 100 ailments. They made the Refer Madness film so people would quit using a natural substance and replace it with petroleum based poison.
It’s medicine from God. Reject it if it consumes your life, but don’t paint everyone with the same brush. We are not all the same. What traps you is medicine for the next person and it was medicine until the Rockefeller family corrupted it. Exercise changes my body chemically as well. Should I quit exercising because of it Brother? It makes me feel good and is good for my body. Should I stop this sinful behavior since it makes me feel good? 😁
I respect your opinion on this matter. It's important for me to maintain respectful and thoughtful conversations. When it comes to debating topics like Cannabis, it's often best to avoid engaging in discussions that prove to be fruitless. My point of the essay is to tackle the Cannabis movement sweeping our nation. The sociological problems with this movement are covertly behind much of our nation's decline, as well as our youth putting a fresh fire under the movement - while being unaware of the pathologies that come with Cannabis usage.
And that’s why America is so fat that people have eaten themselves into a total physical handicap. Gluttony is a specific sin listed by the Lord. Cannabis use isn’t.
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery ={Pharmakia/drugs}, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
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.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Are you aware of what our modern day medical professionals are putting in medicine today? Ozempic (Gila Monster Venom) Blood pressure medication made from SNAKE VENOM!!! Are you aware that the Medical Field just poisoned us all with Safe and Effective Shots? A ton of our medication comes straight from poisonous snakes. You can research that topic or keep taking snake venom. I want you to understand the depths of your deception. You are against God’s Medicine but are in favor of Satan’s. Do you see that? You and the good doctor are deceived on this issue. You have adopted Satan’s position on medicine due to listening to his propaganda. Please, actually do some research before answering me. You have fully accepted and defend the Rockefeller/Luciferian plan. 🤷♂️. I can’t help you. You need some of God’s special salve so you can see the deception.
You keep advocating for Satan’s medicine and I will keep advocating the Lord’s. 😊 You have swallowed the Rockefeller/Luciferian trick of poisoning Americans with complete and utter poison made from snake venom and petroleum products. The sad thing is that you can’t see how you have been manipulated. They have you of all people advocating for their poison. You’re deceived on this issue.
I’m not going to waste anymore time with you discussing this. Modern medicine is poison. If you can’t see that, you simply can’t see. Take all of it you want, but save the self righteousness for something other than Satan’s Plan to destroy humanity and the human genome through medicine.
Revelation 18:23…..”by Pharmakeia ALL NATIONS ARE LED ASTRAY. So, by all means reject God’s Medicine and replace it with Satan’s. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
That in no way then justifies taking other forms of Pharmakia through brain altering drugs & of marijuana, Jesus is our true healer always, and of course we must look after our very bodies and we can utilise natural organic growing herbal remedies and foods that do not in any way alter states of our consciousness of minds and thinking, or that invte demonic spirits to enter into our bodies and minds and hearts.
You see you don't even realise what satans' agenda actually is, and part of it especially as outlined in theosophy and 'the golden age' is in going back to the future of the days of the shamanic priests who gave people mind altering drugs and what we see being pushed today is the same especially in taking pharmacological & mind altering drugs through cannabis, psilocybin-magic mushrooms, Ayahuasca the DMT molecule-the cosmic serpent why do you think it's called that hmmmm? 🤔 And the microdosing of LSD etc. Rick Strassman found altered states of consciousness can be even achieved naturally without any drugs. He wrote an entire book about it in: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
Rick Strassman MD. Also look up Jeremy Narby
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, may help you understand why Jesus and heavenly father warns us away from all of satan's lies and all the dangers of Pharmakia in all it's forms & from eating & partaking in the tree of the knowledge of good & evil and to instead eat from the tree of life Jesus! John 6.
And I have repeatedly stated in articles and my most recent one and through notes repeatedly not to ever take any Pharmakia, especially not DNA genetic altering snake venom through mRNA, which Jesus warned me about back in 2015!
If course I am aware and please stop making presumptions and assumptions and I have never advocated any of the beast or satans systems of medicine and never would. Hence why I don't ever go to the drs or hospitals or dentists and would rather die thank you, they are there only to kill people, especially where I reside.
My granny, an angelic fundamentalist Christian and proud member of the WTCU (the pin was on her dress in the coffin), once bragged to her doctor that the only medicine she ever used was Geritol. The doctor told her that if it did anything for her, it was the result of the alcohol in the "medicine". I was introduced to the Devil Weed marijuana when I was 16 years old. In 2025, after using the natural drug for nearly 60 years, I am confident in saying that it helped me accept reality and that 60 years of holding Cannabis smoke in my lungs has caused my lungs to increase in size to the extent that it now takes two x-rays for doctors to see they are in great shape.
It is silly to suggest that a medicinal herb could drive anyone away from Jesus.
Dr. Phinney, a timely article. I was "stoned" on marijuana for likley 40 years. finally quitting completely in 2002. That plant stole from me, including money, energy, time, and my soul. I am so glad to be 100% sober in all things. God and His Son are better than any imbibed substace, even if sobriety is tough. W.E.W.
Thank you, Wendy. Again, you get the point.
Marijuana as cannabis which is specifically bred for it's thc and is laced with often LSD acid, and other unknown psychoactive substances, even organic bush weed are all highly dangerous causing altered states of consciousness that obviously opens doorways to demonic spirits and is a well known cause of psychoses. It also causes giggling and an increase of the lust of sexual desire. It also causes a psychological dependancy and reliance upon it.
As a true Christ Jesus indwelt and Holy spirit infilled servant would not ever consume. When I was drawn back to Jesus Christ, my heart was so profoundly pierced at my absolutely wretched deplorable disgusting state of having been a vile despicable sinner and having a sin nature, that it made me literally vomit, & the fact that I broke my father in heaven's heart that ultimately broke and shattered my own heart, not only had I hurt him but I had hurt others as well as my own self, and how I had
trodden under foot the Son of God, and had accounted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and was despising the Spirit of his grace. That only Jesus could take on board my sins and forgive me and set me free. He gave me the ability to understand that Jesus showed by & through his own life as the word and God made flesh as the second Adam he was tempted in every way but did not sin that is also part of our inheritance in Him to live as overcomers through his very example. Jesus wanted to clean up & transform my life radically, so I could serve him without hindrances. Putting my complete faith in Jesus Christ as saviour and kinsman redeemer in all God's truths, He gave me the amazing gift of saving grace and his inheritance of righteousness to bring forth fruits that befits repentence in helping me by giving me the power and strength to overcome and bring forth Jesus' righteousness, through the power of his precious blood to not only cleanse me from my such sins but is so powerful enough to root them out to no longer be influenced nor being bound imprisoned to them & to be reborn & baptised in the Holy spirit, that's why we receive the Holy spirit is to help us be able to live a life to be pleasing to Him, Jesus sacrificial crucified life and death then resurrection and ascension wasn't for nothing but to save us from our sins, to defeat the devil and nullify his works and our self works, in not only our spirit but soul, our will mind & emotions to our very actions, to be able to be set apart & undergo maturing through the process of sanctification and to be holy and Jesus and God's holy spirit came to dwell in my temple too, from my holy of holies to the holy the inner courtyard to the outer courtyard my very body. He started dealing with all the sins I was living in and the first thing he wanted to deal with & said to me that I must immediately not only repent from was smoking weed, but to turn completely away from it & stop smoking it, as it is a drug and he hates and abhors drugs, as they are all absolutely connected to enabling and inviting demonic spirits to possess and oppress, come in and inhabit you and infect your mind and thinkingabd to control you. Our creator Almighty God Heavenly father in and through Jesus Christ loves us knows what is best for us as He created us in the first place.
He delivered and set me free me from not only smoking weed but nicotine-cigarettes and I would smoke up to 150 to more a day! And then from fornicating, masturbation, he dealt with each and every one of my bondages and from all my wrong thoughts to truly set me free, to make me a new creation in Christ. He emancipated me from 'Babylon' and 'Egypt'=the world, satan's system & to die, be crucified to the world & it to be crucified to me and die be buried with Christ to enter into true resurrection life, die to self so I could embark on walking according to the spirit and not to fulfil the desires of the carnal lusts of the flesh, but to beat my body & lead it as a slave not the other way around, one of the fruits of the holy spirit is self control, and Jesus calls us to deny self and pick up our cross daily to deny self, as the works of the flesh are in complete opposition to how our father in heaven created us to be and to live in such a way that will bring Him honour and glorify Him. He delivered me from the enemy the evil one and taught me how to resist the devil so he would flee from me and Huw to resist temptation, to get on my knees and pray to overcome and not enter into sinning, even to the point of as it were shedding blood, that Jesus in me was stronger and more powerful than to give in to temptation and the God I loved and served was all powerful though I was weak Jesus I me was strong & all those past sins were all bondages keeping me in a prison of my own making and choices, that I no longer needed to be subjected to, as I had been feeding to the desires of my corrupt pathetic weak flesh. He helped develop within me the mind of Christ Jesus, my heart was circumcised from the carnal flesh it was cut away and removed. The old nature was replaced by the new nature in Christ.
We have to die in Christ to be reborn in Him in his character nature image and likeness. To be born of his seed. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. John 12:24-26
And these are they which are sown on good ground, such as hear the Word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” Mark 4:20
Luke 8:11-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3
For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
1 John 5:4
Matthe/Mark/Luke/John
Galatians chapter 5
Romans
1/2/3 John
Whole bible.
But truly going to seek Jesus as the only way the only truth and the life and only way to the father, many search the scriptures for in them they think they will receive eternal life and yet they all testify of Him, but sadly many never come to Jesus to receive
His life and indwelling.
It is only the seed that dies gets buried gets broken to bring forth shoots to the light the light of the true kingdom of God's heavenly kingdom and of Jesus as the light that came into the world to be filled with his light by keeping our eye single and submitting to him as our master and making him Lord and King, seeking Him first and his kingdom of righteousnes, abiding in Jesus in our own day to day lives that then then grows and can bring forth mature healthy fruits from and if the spirit.
John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Matthew 12:43-45
“He delivered and set me free me from not only smoking weed but nicotine-cigarettes and I would smoke up to 150 to more a day! And then from fornicating, masturbation, he dealt with each and every one of my bondages and from all my wrong thoughts to truly set me free, to make me a new creation in Christ.“ Praise God, Hephzibah.
My use of pot ended after about 4 years of its heavy influence in my life. I, also, had pursued the Hippie Philosophy (if that is what it was) and smoking pot was a big part of that. The faultiness of the statement “It helps me think deeper.” was easily evident and yet ignored. How many times did I sit across a chess board with a friend, staring at the game at hand until one of us would ask the very telling question, “Whose move is it?”
In retrospect, pot, the pseudo-spiritual side of Hippie-dom ,and the false comraderie of drug use, all were attempts by me at trying to deal with my deep sense of guilt for some very poor choices I had made. When I came to Christ, that “old man” was left in the baptismal tank along with so much more.
Wow, I get that! The use of marijuana among Christians is a topic of growing discussion and debate. Some Christians believe that marijuana use can be permissible if it's for medical purposes, citing its potential benefits for pain relief and other health conditions. However, researchers like me express concerns about both medical & recreational use, emphasizing the importance of sobriety and self-control as taught in the Bible. I believe that marijuana use could lead to dependency and impair one's ability to live a life that honors God. As with many issues, it's important to lean inwardly to the Life of Yeshua.
Jesus in me was stronger .
The Lord made cannabis. He designed our bodies with a cannaboid system to utilize it in some form or fashion. He didn’t design us with an alcohol system. Something to think about. I certainly don’t believe that someone that utilizes a plant that God made is going to Hell over it. Everything in moderation.🤷♂️
That is the exact ideology that got me trapped into a life of addictions. God made opium poppies which is morphine, codeine, and heroin. God made Khat - cathinone, and amphetamines. God made salvia divinorum, which is the most powerful hallucinogen on the planet, plus 100 other addictive plants & 12,000+ poisonous plants. I don't believe God designed plant life as an open source for ingestion.
Obviously, I beg to differ. Since 1966, when I was first introduced to Cannabis, I have used and enjoyed it thousands of times. My "addiction" to the herb is no different than the "addiction" I had to tennis as a young man and Taiji as an old man. Everything doesn't have to be political or Satanic. As a friend, a JW, once told me why God gives us beautiful sunsets: The answer, of course, is because we enjoy it.
As documented by Andrew Weil in his first book, it is a natural desire of humans to alter our consciousness. Watch kids on the playground running to make the merry-go-round go faster or just spinning to get dizzy.
Some things are just fun. And if the only side-effect of a natural medicine is happiness and laughter, I don't find that threatening.
Charles, thank you for sharing your input on this. I don't expect others to follow my convictions. That idea is as fruitless as eating plastic fruit from Walmart. LOL. As a lifelong student of endocrinology, a psychologist of 25+ years, and being a man of the Word, I certainly have developed convictions regarding addictive substances. I had a face-to-face discussion with a renowned oncologist this morning, and he said the ramifications of THC classically do not show the dangerous effects on cancer cell development & the nervous system until the elder years. However, once it begins, dementia, and hypoesthesia (nerve damage) moves quickly.
I assure you that I will let you know if my doctor or my wife tells me I am off my rocker. In the meantime, I appreciate your civility.
I remember clearly how Jackie Gleason was held up as an example of a man who defied every health advisory, drank, smoked, and did somersaults until that day that he suddenly died.
My personal experience with cannabis, that magical healing herb, has been amazingly positive in every way (except financially). In fact, the experiences I have when intoxicated on my favorite pain killer is virtually the same as the experience I get from deep meditation.
Charles, I do appreciate your thoughts on this sensitive topic. Most are unwilling to disclose their thoughts on this. Your boldness is respected.
2nd Timothy 4:4
I love the full passage: "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths." Thanks for communicating with me. What is your name?
Prior to the Rockefeller’s taking over modern day medicine in the early 1900’s cannabis was used to treat over 100 ailments. They made the Refer Madness film so people would quit using a natural substance and replace it with petroleum based poison.
It’s medicine from God. Reject it if it consumes your life, but don’t paint everyone with the same brush. We are not all the same. What traps you is medicine for the next person and it was medicine until the Rockefeller family corrupted it. Exercise changes my body chemically as well. Should I quit exercising because of it Brother? It makes me feel good and is good for my body. Should I stop this sinful behavior since it makes me feel good? 😁
I respect your opinion on this matter. It's important for me to maintain respectful and thoughtful conversations. When it comes to debating topics like Cannabis, it's often best to avoid engaging in discussions that prove to be fruitless. My point of the essay is to tackle the Cannabis movement sweeping our nation. The sociological problems with this movement are covertly behind much of our nation's decline, as well as our youth putting a fresh fire under the movement - while being unaware of the pathologies that come with Cannabis usage.
for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; And it's this next point that needs to be fully embraced and understood ultimately;
but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.
That's the absolute truth!
And that’s why America is so fat that people have eaten themselves into a total physical handicap. Gluttony is a specific sin listed by the Lord. Cannabis use isn’t.
I’m going to go with the Word of the Lord. 🤷♂️
1 Timothy 4:8;
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery ={Pharmakia/drugs}, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
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.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Are you aware of what our modern day medical professionals are putting in medicine today? Ozempic (Gila Monster Venom) Blood pressure medication made from SNAKE VENOM!!! Are you aware that the Medical Field just poisoned us all with Safe and Effective Shots? A ton of our medication comes straight from poisonous snakes. You can research that topic or keep taking snake venom. I want you to understand the depths of your deception. You are against God’s Medicine but are in favor of Satan’s. Do you see that? You and the good doctor are deceived on this issue. You have adopted Satan’s position on medicine due to listening to his propaganda. Please, actually do some research before answering me. You have fully accepted and defend the Rockefeller/Luciferian plan. 🤷♂️. I can’t help you. You need some of God’s special salve so you can see the deception.
You keep advocating for Satan’s medicine and I will keep advocating the Lord’s. 😊 You have swallowed the Rockefeller/Luciferian trick of poisoning Americans with complete and utter poison made from snake venom and petroleum products. The sad thing is that you can’t see how you have been manipulated. They have you of all people advocating for their poison. You’re deceived on this issue.
I’m not going to waste anymore time with you discussing this. Modern medicine is poison. If you can’t see that, you simply can’t see. Take all of it you want, but save the self righteousness for something other than Satan’s Plan to destroy humanity and the human genome through medicine.
Revelation 18:23…..”by Pharmakeia ALL NATIONS ARE LED ASTRAY. So, by all means reject God’s Medicine and replace it with Satan’s. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
That in no way then justifies taking other forms of Pharmakia through brain altering drugs & of marijuana, Jesus is our true healer always, and of course we must look after our very bodies and we can utilise natural organic growing herbal remedies and foods that do not in any way alter states of our consciousness of minds and thinking, or that invte demonic spirits to enter into our bodies and minds and hearts.
You see you don't even realise what satans' agenda actually is, and part of it especially as outlined in theosophy and 'the golden age' is in going back to the future of the days of the shamanic priests who gave people mind altering drugs and what we see being pushed today is the same especially in taking pharmacological & mind altering drugs through cannabis, psilocybin-magic mushrooms, Ayahuasca the DMT molecule-the cosmic serpent why do you think it's called that hmmmm? 🤔 And the microdosing of LSD etc. Rick Strassman found altered states of consciousness can be even achieved naturally without any drugs. He wrote an entire book about it in: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
Rick Strassman MD. Also look up Jeremy Narby
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, may help you understand why Jesus and heavenly father warns us away from all of satan's lies and all the dangers of Pharmakia in all it's forms & from eating & partaking in the tree of the knowledge of good & evil and to instead eat from the tree of life Jesus! John 6.
And I have repeatedly stated in articles and my most recent one and through notes repeatedly not to ever take any Pharmakia, especially not DNA genetic altering snake venom through mRNA, which Jesus warned me about back in 2015!
If course I am aware and please stop making presumptions and assumptions and I have never advocated any of the beast or satans systems of medicine and never would. Hence why I don't ever go to the drs or hospitals or dentists and would rather die thank you, they are there only to kill people, especially where I reside.
2nd Timothy 4:4
My granny, an angelic fundamentalist Christian and proud member of the WTCU (the pin was on her dress in the coffin), once bragged to her doctor that the only medicine she ever used was Geritol. The doctor told her that if it did anything for her, it was the result of the alcohol in the "medicine". I was introduced to the Devil Weed marijuana when I was 16 years old. In 2025, after using the natural drug for nearly 60 years, I am confident in saying that it helped me accept reality and that 60 years of holding Cannabis smoke in my lungs has caused my lungs to increase in size to the extent that it now takes two x-rays for doctors to see they are in great shape.
It is silly to suggest that a medicinal herb could drive anyone away from Jesus.