Legal Cannabis and Morality

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You said it was inherently sinful. That was the thing I had to take issue with, because it's not true. One could say that recreational use of marijuana is inherently sinful, and that would be accurate. Those people you are referencing were obviously using the substance recreationally. This is no different than morphine. Recreational use of morphine is inherently sinful and people who engage in that behavior are going to screw up their lives, but medical use of morphine is acceptable from a moral standpoint. These same distinctions would logically have to apply to THC; the only difference being that THC is far less harmful and addictive than morphine, so it's potential morally licit therapeutic uses are wider than morphine given the decreased gravity of harm resulting from use. Again, its a question of where we draw the lines and how we go about doing so.