more on herbals.....

ok,so when i last ranted about herbals in world society....i failed to make the point i had intended.....which was a quote from genesis whereupon man was given dominion over the plants, the fish, the birds, the animals........and i was going to point out that nowhere in the bible does it actually say that herbal medicinals are good or bad.......abuse of alcohol is mentioned......but not medicinals.....and therefore rightwing conservative christians could claim that they have the right to their medicinals........because when asked wwjd.......we can definitively say that he said nothing on the subject........honestly....he said more on divorce that almost any other subject.....in the sermon on the mount he singled out divorce for comment.....and he was agin it...........i must also point out that though i am ranting/have ranted about the long history of their use.......i stick to wine as my biblically-based vice........and have no interest in the currently illegal alternatives........other than to say that in my day one did inhale.....wasn't that the point?.......but i was quite careful never to actually buy because that was more illegal, or at least that is how i rectified it in my head at the time.....lo these 30 years ago...ok, ok so i will disclose my story about the scardest i have ever been........yeah scardest isn't a word, but it fits......at osu...i was going out with a fraternity fellow....and he said he had a stop to make before we went to dinner.....and that stop involved a small room with several people cleaning a bale of marajuana and putting it in ziplocks......and i recall being so scared i could not breathe for fear that narcs would descend at any moment......and/or the maffia would do a drive by...or columbians wanting payouts would walk in oozies in hand....needless to say i deemed my date as inconsistent with my life goals........ i chuckle to myself when clients rant about drugs in amercia.....and list an anxiety medication along with their blood pressure and diabetes meds......wtf do they think an anxiety medication is?.........it is likely opium based...........which brings us back to the historical nature of such herbals.....they have always and will always have a place in society....the legality will certainly be at issue at each and every junction........