DWQA QuestionsCategory: Divine GuidanceAre cannabis and hemp divine creations native to Earth, or are they alien imports?
Nicola Staff asked 3 years ago
Both plants are native species and both are present to provide the attributes they contain. The psychoactive cannabis has potential benefit for ceremonial purposes and health benefits, not all of which have been appreciated as yet. As with other substances affecting the body and the mind in particular, there are potential liabilities from its use, as is the case with the opioids found in nature that can be abused and even cause death through overdose. While cannabis is much safer because it will not produce a profound depression of respiration, for example, it nonetheless has abuse potential and will become quite a scourge with widespread indiscriminate use in society. So having legal restrictions on its use was not inherently a terrible idea even though it was limiting human freedom. In a world where humans are manipulated by the darkness to do all sorts of self-indulgent and risky things, any way that can contribute a beneficial restriction to limit potentially dangerous conduct may be more beneficial than harmful through some limitation of liberty, but history has shown that prohibitions ultimately become less and less obeyed and also enforced, and leads to corruption as well. So along the way there eventually is a point of diminishing returns with a greater liability resulting from making such substances illegal. It is better to have enlightenment so people have a clearer understanding of what they risk, what they will lose, and hold them to account so they must bear the burden of the consequences of their actions. That is somewhat different than embracing the idea of wanton disregard for any standards or limits and embracing a reckless disregard for consequences to use such things indiscriminately, and especially allowing it among the young who are too immature, in most cases, to have established self-control and mature perspectives about the pros and cons of the risks involved, because their focus is on short-term pleasure.