I do not interpet the Bible to say I must Obey mans law. You can pick and choose passages to make the Bible say whatever you want.

The Bible also says: "Forgive and You will be Forgiven" "Judge and you will be Judged" "Do to others as you would have them do unto You"

What's more Cannabis was used in biblical times: for clothing, paper, cord, sails, fishnet, oil, sealant, incense, food, and in ceremony, relaxation and medicine.

For so the Lord said unto me, "I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs. For afore harvest, when the bud is perfect and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks and take away and cut down the branches." (Isaiah
18:4-5)

Hemp was used in this country for everything from rope clothes paper oil just like in the Bible until the government found prohibition to be more profitable.

Do you believe God created Marijuana? If not just where did it come from? Herbs are mentioned in the Bible repeatedly.

I don't like it when people talk about Marijuana and hard drugs as if they go together. They don't. There have been studies that prove Marijuana is not A GATEWAY drug. AND There are studies proving its legalization actually lowers the violent crime rate.

There are all sorts of new medical studies being done: MARIJUANA-LIKE COMPOUNDS MAY AID ARRAY OF DEBILITATING CONDITIONS RANGING FROM PARKINSON'S DISEASE TO PAIN

SAN DIEGO, October 26, 2004 ?? No longer a pipe dream, new animal research now indicates that marijuana-like compounds can aid a bevy of debilitating conditions, ranging from brain disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, to pain and obesity.

In past studies, researchers determined that the main active chemicals in the drug marijuana produce a variety of effects by connecting to specific sites on nerve cells, called cannabinoid receptors. Researchers also discovered that these receptors normally bind to natural internal chemicals, dubbed cannabinoids.

??Understanding how marijuana and the brain's own natural cannabinoid system works is helping researchers design new medicines,? says cannabinoid expert Daniele Piomelli, PhD, of the University of California in Irvine.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Scientists said Thursday that marijuana appears to promote the development of new brain cells in rats and have anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects, a finding that could have an impact on the national debate over medical uses of the drug.

This is nothing NEW patients have been claiming it for years.

Other illegal and legal drugs, including opiates, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine, have been shown to suppress the formation of new brain cells when used chronically, but marijuana's effect on that process was uncertain.

Now, a team led by Xia Zhang of the department of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon may have found evidence the drug spurs new brain cells to form in a region of the brain called the hippocampus, and this in turn reduces anxiety and depression.

Marijuana appears "to be the only illicit drug whose capacity to produce increased ... neurons is positively correlated with its (anti-anxiety) and anti-depressant-like effects,"

http://www.hmnews.org/article2749.html

It is MY RIGHT to use marijuana. My back has been broken in 11 places. I have been on Morphine, oxycontin, viodin you name it.
I have even let them put a 6 inch long needle directly into my spine and pump meds directly into my spinal cord. Nothing helped.

All that happened was I slept all the time and if I was awake I hurt and I vomited non stop from the meds. I also had grand mal seizures. My life sucked big time. I did not have a life. My kids did not have a mom.

Someone suggested I try weed. I had not smoked it for over 20 years. I was in high school when I tried weed for the 1st time and I hated it so I never did it again until a few years ago.

Now I use a vaporizer and smoke weed everyday. I can spend all day awake with my family I never throw up and I no longer have to take Dilantin for seizures. I don't have to take any hard addictive pain killers.

So it is not a matter of breaking mans law it is a matter of my God given right to live and smoke weed. I am not alone there is case after case of people with cronic illness helped by weed.

How dare you throw your misguided interpetation of the Bible around without having done your research. You have not walked in my shoes.

What gives you the right to Judge anyone? GRRRRRRRRRRR