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Banning Weed and Drugs
muman613:
Tag, of what interest does the government have what a person does with his or her body?
Jewish law prohibits things which are harmful to the body. The command that we must not abuse our bodies is repeated in several laws.
Ultimately I think that question is the deciding factor in whether the Jewish government should 'legalize' it or should 'regulate' it...
Tag-MehirTzedek:
--- Quote from: muman613 on December 26, 2013, 06:39:44 PM ---Tag, of what interest does the government have what a person does with his or her body?
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That is the question. Can they bann such things or not? and what KLAL would it fall under be it a Ben-Noah government of a Torah Israel government.
Also about interest- perhaps a government would like a productive population that isn't on drugs and working instead. OR the drugs could cause crimes (such as murder for example), OR it would be moral to prvent someone from committing an avera and if its an avera how much power (to what extent) does the government have in order to do soo.
muman613:
--- Quote from: Tag-MehirTzedek on December 26, 2013, 10:50:08 PM --- That is the question. Can they bann such things or not? and what KLAL would it fall under be it a Ben-Noah government of a Torah Israel government.
Also about interest- perhaps a government would like a productive population that isn't on drugs and working instead. OR the drugs could cause crimes (such as murder for example), OR it would be moral to prvent someone from committing an avera and if its an avera how much power (to what extent) does the government have in order to do soo.
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Can't 'drugs' be dealt with similar to 'alcohol'?
~Hanna~:
Here is some useful information about MJ. It's been used as medicine by the Chinese and the Egyptians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis
Tag-MehirTzedek:
Well I guess this discussion didn't get much to where I wanted it to go. Still very good and serious question(s).
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