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Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
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Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 13, 2010 at 9:54 am
Jesus 'healed using cannabis'

Jesus w as almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings.

The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was Jesus a Stoner? The incense used by Jesus in ceremonies also contained a cannabis extract, suggests Mr Bennett, who quotes scholars to back his claims.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jan...e.religion

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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 13, 2010 at 9:02 pm
awsome now they have to legalize it! Its in there religionBig Grin They must fallow Gods word ha!
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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 13, 2010 at 9:16 pm
This. Explains. EVERYTHING!
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
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December 13, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Guys, the idea that the anointing oils used by the ancient Jews contain weed is basically an internet meme. There is zero physical evidence.

The logic in the source article is shocking, and it's hosted on a pro-weed website... I'm a stoner and even I call bullshit, pro weed websites are mostly just a bunch of self-important wasters with no concept of verifying their claims. They will leach on the first mention of weed and squeeze all sorts of bullshit from it. The biblical verses in "support" of the claims are also hardly relevant.

The only 'evidence' period is a potential interpretation of the word "keneh-bosm" which is disputed by most scholars of Jewish antiquity.

And it also relies on the idea that getting stoned through the skin is effective... I've been up to my forearms in resin more than once (using the ice-water method did not go as planned Smile ), and it didn't do a thing to my state of mind.
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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 14, 2010 at 12:35 am
The Guardian is a pro-weed website?
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December 14, 2010 at 1:12 am
(December 14, 2010 at 12:35 am)Tiberius Wrote: The Guardian is a pro-weed website?

Maybe i should have said "primary source" Tongue

The source of this article is a website called "High Times" - The author has found some people who think that Jesus might have used weed and created a rather 'fantastical' article around that poin

http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/139t.
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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 15, 2010 at 7:49 am
(December 14, 2010 at 1:12 am)theVOID Wrote:
(December 14, 2010 at 12:35 am)Tiberius Wrote: The Guardian is a pro-weed website?

Maybe i should have said "primary source" Tongue

The source of this article is a website called "High Times" - The author has found some people who think that Jesus might have used weed and created a rather 'fantastical' article around that poin

http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/139t.

Hightimes Magazine has been around long enough to be a grandpa!

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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 15, 2010 at 8:18 am
My grandpa is full of shit sometimes too.
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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 15, 2010 at 8:32 am (This post was last modified: December 15, 2010 at 8:36 am by Justtristo.)
Firstly, it makes you wonder what Jesus would do, if he was living in our time, maybe say blessed are the stoners perhaps. Secondly, I wonder if Catholics now will have pictures like these in their homes.

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RE: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
December 15, 2010 at 8:42 am
No fucking way, it would undermine their belief that God agrees with them (though in their heads it's flipped to "I agree with God").
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