weed mans syndrome

[anAfrican]

Neither juvenile, foolish nor from the continent. Go ahead, keep laughing. Sad to see "continental bashing" in a space about uplifting Africans.

Alcohol does more damage than buds. California highway patrol once actually did a study. They found that drivers are easier going and safer.

It's always funny to consider which propaganda folks buy into and which they throw away. Especially when, with a teensy bit of thought, the propaganda can be seen through. But it's much easier to just change the channel and watch another ball game, isn't it?

 

[Therious]

Neither juvenile, foolish nor from the continent. Go ahead, keep laughing. Sad to see "continental bashing" in a space about uplifting Africans.

Alcohol does more damage than buds. California highway patrol once actually did a study. They found that drivers are easier going and safer.

It's always funny to consider which propaganda folks buy into and which they throw away. Especially when, with a teensy bit of thought, the propaganda can be seen through. But it's much easier to just change the channel and watch another ball game, isn't it?

please man ive heard every study, and every concept. i know what i know, and have experienced. yes alchohol is worse than weed, but weed does effect the nervous system in a very serious and harmful way. Like i said your talking to a former weed professional. its funny how we take the good studies than seperate from the bad. you dont have to agree i really could care less, and yes foolish is making a blanket staement about someone before you know someone! Im not against weed smoking, just presenting the facts.

btw

not continent bashing, just reporting the many weak mined fools ive come across, no that doesnt mean an entire people.

 

[Therious]

Yes, I agree with those that say "weed smoke" is harmful to your body. That is, However, if you believe that you are "smoking" the leaves of some plant....The use of Marihuana by shamans and spiritual leaders dates back millenia. The effect it has on your nervous system is that it IMPRINTS a new "reality" letting you "feel" things that have been dormant in your DNA for centuries. It is a 5th circuit substance (read Cosmic trigger by Robert Anton Wilson) that opens your nervous system to higher frequencies. There are other substances that open your 6th and 7th circuits such as Peyote, mescaline, "magic" mushrooms, etc. Marihuana is a milder form of pyschotropic medi-cine used for medi-tation.

To send this thread spiraling upward out of the realm of ignorance, I ask all the Sadhus on the board to light the chilam (waterpipe) and practice your breath control and breathing exercises (pranayama) and do some tai chi and yoga bends/postures (asanas). These archetypal exercises will help you expand your consciousness to the higher circuits of your brain and imprint your OWN reality into your nervous system. You will begin to see the difference in the ritual of lighting Ganja as opposed to just mundanely smoking a blunt.

IF YOU ARE NOT RESPECTING THE RITUAL THEN YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE EFFECTS. This will send your temper, nerves, etc. into chaos.

AAAUUUMMM

Aum are you suggesting one can reach a natural spiritual high with no pyschodelics? good post. I believge that quality has alot to do with your high also. are you saying if one meditates breathes properly than the effects of weed will be different? I have notice when your in higher natural consciousness your pscho high is beter.

 

[Aqil]

The Bible and Marijuana

The Biblical injunction in which God sanctions the use of this herb can be found in Genesis 1:29, which reads as follows: And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food...”

The use of marijuana is as old as the history of man, and dates to the prehistoric period. Marijuana is closely connected with the history and development of some of the oldest nations on Earth. It has played a significant role in the religions and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, India and China. Richard E. Schultes, a prominent researcher in the field of psychoactive plants, said in an article he wrote titled, Man and Marijuana:

“...that early man experimented with all plant materials that he could chew and could not have avoided discovering the properties of cannabis (marijuana), for in his quest for seeds and oil, he certainly ate the sticky tops of the plant. Upon eating hemp the euphoric, ecstatic and hallucinatory aspects may have introduced man to another worldly plane from which emerged religious beliefs, perhaps even the concept of deity. The plant became accepted as a special gift of the gods, a sacred medium for communion with the spiritual world and as such it has remained in some cultures to the present.”

The effects of marijuana was proof to the ancients that the spirit and power of the god(s) existed in this plant, and that it was literally a messenger (angel) or actually the flesh and blood and/or bread of the god(s), and was - and continues to be - a holy sacrament. Considered to be sacred, marijuana has been used in religious worship from before recorded history.

According to William A. Embolden, in his book Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa, p. 235:

"Shamanistic traditions of great antiquity in Asia and the Near East has, as one of their most important elements, the attempt to find God without a veil of tears. That cannabis played a role in this, at least in some areas, is borne out in the philology surrounding the ritualistic use of the plant."

Whereas Western religious traditions generally stress sin, repentance, and mortification of the flesh, certain older non-Western religious cults seem to have employed cannabis as a euphoriant that allowed the participant a joyous path to the Ultimate; hence such appellations as “heavenly guide.” According to the article, "Licit and Illicit Drugs" by the Consumer Union, pp. 397-398:

“Ashurbanipal lived about 650 BC, but the cuneiform descriptions of marijuana in his library are generally regarded as obvious copies of much older texts,” says Dr. Robert P. Walton, an American physician and authority on marijuana. “This evidence serves to project the origin of hashish back to the earliest beginnings of history.”

 

[SAMURAI36]

SALAAM AQI:

The Bible and Marijuana

The Biblical injunction in which God sanctions the use of this herb can be found in Genesis 1:29, which reads as follows: And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food...”

This quote from the Bible says nothing whatsoever about SMOKING any sort of herb, but rather consuming it as food (eating).

If that is the means by which you speak of, then that is all fine, but to smoke anything, organic or otherwise, is detrimental to one's health.

The use of marijuana is as old as the history of man, and dates to the prehistoric period. Marijuana is closely connected with the history and development of some of the oldest nations on Earth. It has played a significant role in the religions and cultures of Africa, the Middle East, India and China. Richard E. Schultes, a prominent researcher in the field of psychoactive plants, said in an article he wrote titled, Man and Marijuana:

“...that early man experimented with all plant materials that he could chew and could not have avoided discovering the properties of cannabis (marijuana), for in his quest for seeds and oil, he certainly ate the sticky tops of the plant. Upon eating hemp the euphoric, ecstatic and hallucinatory aspects may have introduced man to another worldly plane from which emerged religious beliefs, perhaps even the concept of deity. The plant became accepted as a special gift of the gods, a sacred medium for communion with the spiritual world and as such it has remained in some cultures to the present.”

The effects of marijuana was proof to the ancients that the spirit and power of the god(s) existed in this plant, and that it was literally a messenger (angel) or actually the flesh and blood and/or bread of the god(s), and was - and continues to be - a holy sacrament. Considered to be sacred, marijuana has been used in religious worship from before recorded history.

According to William A. Embolden, in his book Ritual Use of Cannabis Sativa, p. 235:

"Shamanistic traditions of great antiquity in Asia and the Near East has, as one of their most important elements, the attempt to find God without a veil of tears. That cannabis played a role in this, at least in some areas, is borne out in the philology surrounding the ritualistic use of the plant."

Whereas Western religious traditions generally stress sin, repentance, and mortification of the flesh, certain older non-Western religious cults seem to have employed cannabis as a euphoriant that allowed the participant a joyous path to the Ultimate; hence such appellations as “heavenly guide.” According to the article, "Licit and Illicit Drugs" by the Consumer Union, pp. 397-398:

“Ashurbanipal lived about 650 BC, but the cuneiform descriptions of marijuana in his library are generally regarded as obvious copies of much older texts,” says Dr. Robert P. Walton, an American physician and authority on marijuana. “This evidence serves to project the origin of hashish back to the earliest beginnings of history.”

Again, not once is the mention of SMOKING Marijuana mentioned in any of these exerpts.

The affects of psychotropic narcotics transcends the psychological, and has a definite, immediate effect upon the physiological.

To ignore this is to destroy the Soul (spiritual) at the expense of trying to save it.

PEACE