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Buddhist Views on Marijuana: Intoxicant vs. Medicine

Zen Buddhist, Trevor Fenwick, explains how Buddhist view cannabis as an intoxicant, but he believes it's medicinal and can be used for calming the mind, concentrating, pain relief and enhancing sleep. SmuggleVision is sponsored by: http://www.smuggleportland.com/ 0:15 Marijuana and Buddhist Culture Let's get into the marijuana issue within Buddhist culture. 0:20 Cannabinoids are Medicine Generally, the view is that marijuana is an intoxicant, but I disagree. If it's used medically, it doesn't have to have any THC to have this ... Right, but THC and CBD and all the cannabinoids actually are medicinal for most people. 0:45 Intoxicant, or Medicine It's been labeled intoxicant, and now we're calling medicinal for some. For some. For some, and so if I were to go to a Buddhist retreat and the topic of pot came up, would everyone be like, "Yeah, you probably can't"? Definitely, you probably couldn't smoke at the retreat, right? 1:02 Focus on Your Practice No because when you go on a retreat, you want to just concentrate on your practice, and you just give everything up from the outside world, and it's very typical. When I go on a retreat, you take the precepts to abstain from having sex and taking intoxicants and lots of things. Obsessively using your cellphone. 1:28 Medicinal Uses Yeah, you put away your cellphone, your laptop, and you give yourself that space just to be with yourself. Whereas, I use marijuana medicinally for things like anxiety, to help me sleep at night, and it's symptomatic of this culture where it's so busy, so fast, we have so much information coming at us. I just find that marijuana helps calm my mind and helps me concentrate. 1:59 CBD as Pain Relief I just had a surgery, and I was recovering from that, and it was very painful. I got a really high CBD strain, and it helped me immensely without the side effects of taking something like a prescription pain killer or some sort of opiate. I think this is very much part of our puritanical culture where the side effect of marijuana is euphoria, and if you feel good, that's not a good thing. It's ridiculous to me. 2:46 Marijuana or a Pill? My sister, for example, she's a nurse, and she had the choice between marijuana and another pill that had a lot of side effects, and she was like, "I don't want that euphoria." I'm like, "Why not?" Yes.