Originally posted by Bill J. at Team Ford:
A nice little tid bit for the pro-cannabis crowd.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,869273,00.html


� � Is it too late to say something about the original article?

� � The premise seems to be that Jesus healed, not through miraculous divine powers, but through the use of a mundane medicinal substance extracted from marijuana.�  This premise cuts right to the heart of who Jesus was, and who he is believed to be.�  Did he perform miracles by the power and authority of his father, the omnipotent God, or did he merely perform feats of common science only slightly more advanced than that known by those who witnessed these feats?

� � I leave it to any who regard themselves as Christians to decide which view of Jesus they will regard as more correct.

� � At a more scientific level, there seems to be a very big hole in the entire premise on which this article is based.

� � The effective use of marijuana and of substances derived therefrom, for medicinal purposes is a matter of some controversy.�  There is some scattered anecdital evidence that suggests that marijuana might have some degree of effectiveness in treating some medical conditions; but there is a severe dearth of credible scientific evidence one way or the other.�  In any event, there is no credible account of the blind being made to see, the lame being made to walk, the dead being raised back to life, or diseases such as leprosy being cured, through the use of marijuana or of anything derived from it.�  If cannabis was really the agent of the miracles that Jesus performed, then certainly the two millenia since then should be filled with accounts of similar miracles being performed all over the world, by other people of all beliefs, using cannabis.

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