With states starting to sell Medical and Recreational Marijuana will this have an effect on Christians? Is marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol as President Obama said?
How can it effect you if you do not partake?
you can get alcohol poisoning and you cannot over dose on marijuana, I know this because back in the day(b.c.) I tried to o.d. on it. you just go to sleep. The deaths for driving drunk is way way way higher(no pun intended) than that of driving while intoxicated on marijuana. Marijuana wont cause your liver to fail, although it can damage your lungs. There has also been a study that produced one drink of alky kills 10,000 brain cells permanently while smoking a joint only temporarily paralyses the connectors from brain cell to brain cell and after you quit smoking they can revive. so I would say in this aspect it is not as dangerous.
However weather alky or pot..... drunkenness is a sin. And hell fire is pretty dangerous I would think. So in this aspect, not to much different. Luke 12:
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.