If it's for recreation and abuse, then I don't think it's compatible with a fruitful relationship with God. But if it's for legitimate medical use, than I don't see an issue with it.
Much love!
I have a funny story about kidney stones. And when I was in the hospital for them I became a believer in intravenous demerol. I am talking water on the fire of pain. While I was in there one of my church kids was my nurse....(sprang up from 3 foot to 5.7...time flies.) Anyway, fresh out of college she gave me the history of opioids. Good to have a Christian nurse. She explained that opioids are Satan way of get at those that would not normally be interested in drugs. And indeed opioids are an epidemic among the "older class." So now in my medical record it is stated on the first page...NO ADDICTIVE PAIN KILLERS.
When you smoke marijuana if has certain affects on mind and body. If you know some that have smoked a lot...besides their smell, it changes their voice...style of speech...way of thinking, literally their mind. The drug mind...it is amazing a the drug could have a character and a mind permanent mind altering affect that seem to be constant with most pot smokers.
I have had fun with pot smokers, I rode Harley choppers for most of my life. I understand the doobie around the campfire...lol...it is like the Indian Peace Pipe. I use to have a neighbor and him and his wife smoked pot, kind of like people that drink wine in the evening, and he would come over to play chess with me. He admittedly was doing that because he wanted to make sure that the pot was not making him stupid. lol Of course he knew me and what I was... So one evening he comes over with some news....his wife was pregnant with their first child....and the topic turned to where he was going to hide the pot with a child in house and how him and his wife was going to hide their pot smoking from there child. I listened for a while and then reached over the chess board and slapped the snot out of him. I went to my bedroom and grabbed one of the Gideons and by the time I came back he had picked himself off the floor and I threw the Bible on the table and said, Start with page one. Two beautiful people made one beautiful little girl and I was her Godfather.
Now the problem with pot is that it does the same thing if you use it for recreation or "medicinal purposes." And it sets the same example for kids or grand kids whether you are smoking it for recreation or "medicinal purposes." And it has the same affect when you are driving whether you are smoking it for recreation or "medicinal purposes." Had a guy delivering furniture to my house. He was sitting in his pickup truck and I went over to talk to him, when I stuck my head in the window I smelled that his truck reeked of pot. I chuckled and said, Like the pot ahhh!?
He quickly commented that he had a prescription for pot or had a card. And I replied, And the prescription specifically requires you to smoke pot while you are driving? I know that in the "Wide World of Sports" that not all people that smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes are pot heads, I just never met one....and the funny thing is, they think people cannot tell.
Did you know that morphine is not a painkiller really....it puts you in a state of mind that you just don't care. We have all these people running around with prescriptions for pot because that is the only thing that will work for them...Maybe there are a few, but not this many. Justification is the door to sin and evil. Every evildoer out there justifies what they do, no matter what sin it is. If you are a Christian you are under the conviction of the Word of God. Be careful what you justify.