This.
As usual babe seems to be delusional about the topic at hand
So my "Pot Scholar" needs context. I only report the conclusion this one person made, a person who does use a select type for pain, and this is hearsay from the street, more or less, from one person.
My associations/business with folks I can affirmatively state are significant weed users would in loose terms confirm the medical reports that use of weed is not without some effects observable to what Siro might call "objective" observers/reporters. "High" is one type of observable effect, which of course for any particular person some kind of dose/response phenomena. You like it, use it, but maybe don't get so "high" but feel relaxed. Effects on pain are by my understanding of it may be quite independent of the "high", and you can get a strain of weed that has more pain benefit than "high" side effect.
I have never used weed, never will. I don't need it. I have plenty of fun just saying things in JFC that make some people go nuts.
I have observed, objectively, that people can get "high" off having a knowitall view of themselves, or believing they know the right path for all humanity. I consider the state of mind we get off on to any extreme to be worthy of question.
Calling anyone on a sports fan site "delusional" is a useless exercise. Of course it's a pretty unhinged exercise to be a fan of anything. But with the Utah Jazz, it's practically a religion.
I would question Jesus for drinking wine, as reported in the Bible..... and Noah as well.....
But the Apostle Paul declared in several essays that we are free to eat and drink even stuff forbidden by the Law of Moses, and Jesus said "It is not that which goeth in to a man that defileth him, but that which comes out." Well, whichever end I suppose.... but Jesus meant our words and thoughts. I'm more of a free speech guy maybe.
But if a religion or Church wants to have a substance code like the Word of Wisdom, and make it a fundamental measure of the faith, that's their business. I would put pot on the list of harmful things that debilitate the human mind, in objectively observable ways. It does affect certain brain centers which are pretty important overall.
"Judgment" is one. Maybe hard to quantify or qualify exactly..... but go read the lit in the professional journals.... it's subject to current study and discussion.