Marijuana

||||||5:91 Satan's plan is (but) to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants and gambling and hinder you from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer: will ye not then abstain?

Innama yureedu alshshaytanu an yooqiAAa baynakumu alAAadawata waalbaghdaa fee alkhamri waalmaysiri wayasuddakum AAan thikri Allahi waAAani alssalati fahal antum muntahoona||||

Just want to say that the intoxication of marijuana does not hinder from the remembrance of god.
It is a different kind of intoxiction. Also this kind of intoxication does not affect decision making for the worse if used sensibly.

|||||4:43 O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again. |||||||

HEre it says that you should not pray when your mind is befogged not when an intoxicant is in your system. Marijuana is effective for only a few hours. Besides certain breeds of marijuana (sativa) don't befog your mind but produce a different, uplifting high.

Also marijuana is not addictive physically. Mentally, it is not very addictive. I have kept off for 1 month with no mental withdrawal effects once (during hajj). Also during fasting.

Also marijuana seems not to effect my brain since my grades in my school are well.

Besides the smoke(which can be avoided), marijuana seems to have no health risks. in fact, the THC in it acts as cough medicine actually making coughs more productive. Besides the smoke that comes in if smoked usually builds up in the central passage ways not harming the more vulnerable smaller passsageways.

Also i grow my own marijuana without any special unnatural techniques.(It is legal where live). So because of this I know whats in my marijuana.( I am very much against the use of harder drugs).

I am pretty good muslim (zakat, hajj, salah, shahadah, fasting, i do)

Not sure if i got everything, but i hope someone will respond, i value your side and your opinion, not trying to start a raging bitter argument.

I think most of the sources to my arguments should be here.

anything harmful to your body or that can cause diseases and kill is haraam..

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