Think you know the truth about Jesus?Read on...

[Snowball 2]

Are you still referencing the BBC article that talks about Chris Bennet's paper?

It could also just have easily been echinacea or any of the hundreds of herbs we've had on this planet that have certain curative powers on the human physiology. Why does it HAVE to be pot? You still have absolutely nothing linking Jesus to marijuana and the only person that conjures those images in their head when they read "herbs" and "trees" are potheads. Really, reading what you write is painful and all of the evidence you put forward about this topic is being crushed. I don't even think you're reading what I've written because your replies haven't addressed a single word. Cinammon is an ingredient? Of course it is and the word that Chris Bennet claims to mean pot is what that article is refuting...the word MEANS cinammon NOT GODDAM REEFER. It's in the old testament which you didn't so much as glance at judging from your response. There's no point in arguing because you refuse fact and accept conjecture.

I was wrong. You're not addicted. You're obsessed. You're 26, you have no job and you get high all the time. You couldn't even pass Walmart's drug test if you wanted to. I know you don't have $1.2 million in the bank. That means you're either selling it or you're living off your parents because you can't buy weed and pay rent any other way. Either way it's equally as disturbing. I knew I had you pegged when I made my other post on the topic. This is becoming embarrassing for us both. You want proof positive that pot can ruin your life? Go take your unemployed body to the mirror and see what it has done to you. Smoking weed makes you happy with doing nothing. You're crippled by the fact that you can't have fun anymore without filling your veings with THC. Sorry, but I don't see that marijuana has done anything to improve your life and you're a poor example of a responsible user.

[Gator650]

every substance around today thats illegal was around back then and widely used (as medicine mainly).

like Meth and X-tasy?

[madhatter256]

I was wrong. You're not addicted. You're obsessed. You're 26, you have no job and you get high all the time. You couldn't even pass Walmart's drug test if you wanted to. I know you don't have $1.2 million in the bank. That means you're either selling it or you're living off your parents because you can't buy weed and pay rent any other way. Either way it's equally as disturbing. I knew I had you pegged when I made my other post on the topic. This is becoming embarrassing for us both. You want proof positive that pot can ruin your life? Go take your unemployed body to the mirror and see what it has done to you. Smoking weed makes you happy with doing nothing. You're crippled by the fact that you can't have fun anymore without filling your veings with THC. Sorry, but I don't see that marijuana has done anything to improve your life and you're a poor example of a responsible user.

Can I get an "owned" image here please?

[bete]

Had to happen. I'm a little surprised it took this long.

[/\/\adGamer]

ok we all have argued over the health aspects of POT now lets debate whether you can be an avid smoker of it and get a job and live beyond a parents teet of support.I know from experience that if you smoke pot getting a decent job and keeping it is almost impossible.Eventually something will happen like you will get popped on a random wiz quiz or have an accident that will require a piz test then your back to square one again.I think the whole "pot isnt harmfull" thing is a lie but thats how lies go the longer you keep telling them then they become true to the teller.Our society has made them harmfull.

[tucker]

I don’t know what a stoner or an avid user is but I do know if you smoke pot before work, at work or party all night before work you aren’t going keep/have a job for very long.

I do know that if you smoke weed everyday you have a harmful unproductive habit. I do know that if your life is prioritized on the availability of weed or any other drug you need help.

Recreational as in recreational drug means “occasional” use. If you can’t hold it to occasional use find different form of recreation.

Btw… I don’t know about Jesus and if he did or didn’t smoke marijuana is irrelevant. How he got into the drug controversy is way beyond my realm of comprehension. I guess you need to smoke a handful of doobies and drink half a bottle of 151 to make the connection.

[smoked trout]

The Lowest Pair

[Dutchcedar]

ok we all have argued over the health aspects of POT now lets debate whether you can be an avid smoker of it and get a job and live beyond a parents teet of support.

Looking back over the years of working with lots and lots of people and knowing many who weren't working, the "avid pot smokers" were more often than not in the latter group. That said, I've known a few regular pot smokers who do quite well and stay busy. Heck, one long time friend of mine is what you might call a "functioning crankster". He loads his morning coffee with meth every day and has been for over thirty years... holding the same job and about to retire.

There are certainly exceptions which Ganj will likely glom onto, but by and large, using any drug regularly isn't the kind of thing that's gonna make your occupational future a bright one.

[/\/\adGamer]

Yes Dutch there are exceptions. I know where I work you wouldnt last very long maybe as a sub contractor or even self employed person but very hard to be a everyday pot smoker and work in a place that has a no tolerance drug policy. Ive seen them come and seen them go.

[Poci]

like Meth and X-tasy?

Doh of course that stuff wasnt around.

[Poci]

Are you still referencing the BBC article that talks about Chris Bennet's paper?

It could also just have easily been echinacea or any of the hundreds of herbs we've had on this planet that have certain curative powers on the human physiology. Why does it HAVE to be pot? You still have absolutely nothing linking Jesus to marijuana and the only person that conjures those images in their head when they read "herbs" and "trees" are potheads. Really, reading what you write is painful and all of the evidence you put forward about this topic is being crushed. I don't even think you're reading what I've written because your replies haven't addressed a single word. Cinammon is an ingredient? Of course it is and the word that Chris Bennet claims to mean pot is what that article is refuting...the word MEANS cinammon NOT GODDAM REEFER. It's in the old testament which you didn't so much as glance at judging from your response. There's no point in arguing because you refuse fact and accept conjecture.

I was wrong. You're not addicted. You're obsessed. You're 26, you have no job and you get high all the time. You couldn't even pass Walmart's drug test if you wanted to. I know you don't have $1.2 million in the bank. That means you're either selling it or you're living off your parents because you can't buy weed and pay rent any other way. Either way it's equally as disturbing. I knew I had you pegged when I made my other post on the topic. This is becoming embarrassing for us both. You want proof positive that pot can ruin your life? Go take your unemployed body to the mirror and see what it has done to you. Smoking weed makes you happy with doing nothing. You're crippled by the fact that you can't have fun anymore without filling your veings with THC. Sorry, but I don't see that marijuana has done anything to improve your life and you're a poor example of a responsible user.

Listen,you dont know me or a thing about me.Pot is not the reason Im unemployed,and fyi I dont sell it.Think what you want but like I said Im smoking less now then when I was employed so dont give me that crap.And yes right now Im living with one of my parents,I just moved back in,after living on my own in Spain for years so dont think I been living with my parents my whole life,I just got back and im currently looking for employment so I can save money and go back to Spain

Sigh if you only knew

And btw yup I still beleive pot was Jesus ingredient for the anointment,it could be anything but my best guess is pot,your right its cinnamon but that was just one of the ingredients

[Big B-man]

Its not silly (Jesus) jeez guys just read the BBC article it doesnt say he was a pot head it says he used it as an ingredient in an anointment to cure people.The idea of him being a pot head is silly but thats not what the article says.And it shouldnt suprise any of you that he did use it cause like I said the friggen plant has been used for thousands of years even before Jesus was around as a medicine,so why wouldnt he use it too?
Think people THINK,in Jesus time there WAS NO war on drugs,every substance around today thats illegal was around back then and widely used (as medicine mainly).

I'd be curious to know if marijuana is native to that part of the world or traded in the Roman empire at that time. I do think some of the things they reference are really grasping at straws, but the anointing oil composition never has had a breakdown in the Bible...likely because it was irrelelvant to the stories.

Still, I'm with Snowball: the evidence to support the presence of marijuana's place in the Bible is dubious. It's like some people who try to claim everybody that was famous in history was gay. It's an interesting theory, but it's a theory at best, and utter •••••••• at worst.

[Poci]

I'd be curious to know if marijuana is native to that part of the world or traded in the Roman empire at that time. I do think some of the things they reference are really grasping at straws, but the anointing oil composition never has had a breakdown in the Bible...likely because it was irrelelvant to the stories.

Still, I'm with Snowball: the evidence to support the presence of marijuana's place in the Bible is dubious. It's like some people who try to claim everybody that was famous in history was gay. It's an interesting theory, but it's a theory at best, and utter •••••••• at worst.

LOL who claims who was gay?Thats really irrelevant and has nothing to do with my point.
All im trying to say is that pot could have been the ingredient,I understand many of you finding this hard to beleive.Of course any current church or corporate news channel woudlnt mention this because it would lead people to beleive that marijuana isnt that bad after all if Jesus used it as medicine.But like I said,back in those days any natural herb was used in medicine,and of course it could have been anything,but theres a reason the author of those articles specifically states marijuana.Echineacea?Plz maybe but just take a look at indian sadus,they smoke ganja in their ritual ceremonys.Its even said that Sidarta himself lived off hemp when he was living in the mountains searching for enlightment.And like I said jesus did travel to india,tibet and china,he very likely might have found cannabis there

[Bryan]

Belief is a wonderful thing, it doesn't require proof or fact.

[Big B-man]

"I believe I can fly..."