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Nov 10, 2023 · In 2012, Colorado led the way in legalizing recreational marijuana. A decade later, as more states vote to do the same and popular opinion grows in its support, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila has published a new Pastoral Letter analyzing the effect that these measures and the broad acceptance of drugs in general have had.
ARTICLES. Volume 48 - Issue 2. What Christians Need to Know About “Legalized” Marijuana. By Melvin L. Otey. Abstract. As states continue to decriminalize marijuana and usage escalates in American culture, Christians must increasingly navigate their associations with the drug.
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The Catholic perspective on marijuana, then, amounts to this: regardless of what law permits, the recreational use of cannabis is not a legitimate moral option. Cannabis can be used for therapeutic reasons, such as via prescription, wherever medical use is legal.
Nov 10, 2023 · Marijuana remains illegal at the federal level but has been legalized for recreational use in 23 states and the District of Columbia, most recently by voters in Minnesota and, just days ago, in...
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Jan 19, 2022 · As an abuse of medicinal substances, it constitutes a sin against temperance. However, it is an intemperate act that goes against the fifth rather than the sixth commandment ( CCC, nn. 2288-2291).
Oct 17, 2018 · That marijuana is legal means that it is no longer immoral to use because it is against the law. Pastors and parents who said marijuana use was immoral because it was illegal can no longer use that argument. Prospective users who were put off by its illegality no longer have that barrier. ...there is no law against drinking to great excess ...
Oct 5, 2021 · October 5, 2021. 0. iStock-madsci. Marijuana in itself is not evil, but people can easily abuse it, so prudence, or good judgment, dictates it not be legalized for recreational use. That is the basic teaching of the Catholic Church when it comes to making pot legal.
