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Ethically Do You Believe Human Beings Have the Natural Human Right to Use Any Plant They See Fit as Medicine?

Question by No Chance Without a Kiss: Ethically do you believe human beings have the natural human right to use any plant they see fit as medicine?
And no law should prevent people from access to the medicine that has evolved alongside them for many hundreds of thousands of years?

If you do some research on the history of it you can see cannabis was criminalized because some rich and powerful people didn’t want it competing with their business/industries, and to persecute a particular culture.

Many people in society have undiagnosed mental illness. They self medicate with alcohol and cannabis. World wide alcohol kills 2.5 million people a year, cannabis kills 0.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
ryuk V.2: The funny thing is, it’s completely legal to grow poppies.
johnno: I’m not twisting anything. It’s written quite clearly.
johnno: Quote the Bible passage that says that.
johnno: Quote the Bible passage that says that. Otherwise you’re the one twisting God’s word.

Best answer:

Answer by Great Gazoo
There are never ethical issues with what you do to yourself.

However, going contrary to what science has discovered is breathtakingly stupid.

Add your own answer in the comments!

 


 

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