LDS General Conference Fall 2015

[bigb]

So along those lines I have a serious question for everyone.

Why are "bad words" bad words?
I mean they all come from the same alphabet right? Why is **** a bad word but poop, feces, crap, dang, shoot, etc not bad words?
There is not a list of bad words in the scriptures is there?

Also, is there anywhere in scriptures that says not to smoke pot?
I remember a bible verse that says that God has given us the seed bearing plants and herbs to use. (I think I heard it in a cyprus hill song called hits from the bong)

I read the other response(s) to this, but I'm going to put in my own $.02. It's because that's what's we've been told. It's what we've been conditioned to believe. And by "we" I mean society, not just us Mormons. Granted, some are more acceptable as a whole. But, to me, damn is no different than dang or darn. Hell is no different than heck. The only one that I really shy away from is the f word,and even that will come out when I'm really worked up; and I NEVER take the name of deity in vain. I have too much love and respect for Them to do that. But other than that, words are just words to me.
I think colton did a great job of answering the pot question, even bringing up the medical marijuana thing that I was going to ask.

 

[VINYLONE]

On the question of smoking pot that fish brought up: can Mormons in Colorado for example smoke pot and not break the word of wisdom?

I went to one of the foley artists home yesterday to help her with her audio system. Old girl paid me in kush. Good to go, I always say.

 

[b_line]

Medical pot is pretty innocuous in my mind. I think it's much better than synthetic heroin that is doled out to so many people these days. At any rate, medical marijuana will probably be legal in Utah fairly soon, as even stuffy old gov Herbert has acknowledged it's uses. There are much more uses than just getting high to dull the pain or anxiety. Hemp oil is pretty great for a lot of things, and doesn't have to have thc to be effective. There are a lot if uses if the hemp plant that don't have anything to do with thc, it's just kind of frustrating that it is so attached to getting high. It's pretty much akin to the hypothetical situation of pine trees being outlawed because someone found a way to get high from them.

 

[Bronco70]

Medical pot is pretty innocuous in my mind. I think it's much better than synthetic heroin that is doled out to so many people these days. At any rate, medical marijuana will probably be legal in Utah fairly soon, as even stuffy old gov Herbert has acknowledged it's uses. There are much more uses than just getting high to dull the pain or anxiety. Hemp oil is pretty great for a lot of things, and doesn't have to have thc to be effective. There are a lot if uses if the hemp plant that don't have anything to do with thc, it's just kind of frustrating that it is so attached to getting high. It's pretty much akin to the hypothetical situation of pine trees being outlawed because someone found a way to get high from them.

Most of marijuana's bad reputation comes from a propaganda campaign launched by the cotton industry to quash hemp production in the early 1900's.

 

[fishonjazz]

I went to one of the foley artists home yesterday to help her with her audio system. Old girl paid me in kush. Good to go, I always say.

 

[fishonjazz]

Most of marijuana's bad reputation comes from a propaganda campaign launched by the cotton industry to quash hemp production in the early 1900's.

I had heard it was the logging industry.
Either way, it got smeared pretty hard and ended up with an undeservingly bad rep

 

[Bronco70]

I had heard it was the logging industry.
Either way, it got smeared pretty hard and ended up with an undeservingly bad rep

You could be right. Either way, we've spent almost 100 years vilifying something with a lot of positive potential.

My mother in law has MS. She takes a **** load of pharms. Half of them are to deal with side effects of the others. I think several (if not most) of them could be eliminated if she had legal access to marijuana. I'm not claiming that I think it will cure MS, just that a lot of the residual discomfort could be dealt with in a better way, with a more natural substance.

Sorry for hijacking the conference thread...

 

[babe]

You could be right. Either way, we've spent almost 100 years vilifying something with a lot of positive potential.

My mother in law has MS. She takes a **** load of pharms. Half of them are to deal with side effects of the others. I think several (if not most) of them could be eliminated if she had legal access to marijuana. I'm not claiming that I think it will cure MS, just that a lot of the residual discomfort could be dealt with in a better way, with a more natural substance.

Sorry for hijacking the conference thread...

The way I heard it, the Du Pont family ran the blitz on negativity for outlawing hemp because they had this nylon stuff to make rope with, and wanted the whole market. Mark Twain saw great utility in hemp, as did Ambrose Bierce, but by far the most holy use of hemp historically has been for suitable clothing for neophytes to holy orders, and biblical translators like Tyndale, and the noble peasantry. Not to mention the more noble vegetables like potatoes, onions, and turnips.

Manila made its place on the map by using it to make envelopes. . . . .

I haven't seen any part of the US Constitution that empowers the government to regulate people's use of traditional resources, particularly natural resources whose use predates the patent office. The best thing we can do is reduce the power of the government to a level where it becomes unprofitable for lobbyists to buttonhole or finance elected representatives, judges, or presidents. . . . .