I didn't mean it like that. I was talking about how abuse/addiction nearly always ends up doing harm to both the user and the world around him. There are so few exceptions it's almost automatic and for most if they start to use it's hard not to start to abuse (in practice).
Yeah, I can agree with that. I interpreted you as saying that drugs use, not abuse, leads to "sin/poor moral foundation" because thats how you wrote it. I agree with your clarification, that addiction rarely leads anywhere but down.
It's just one word for what isn't in our greatest good and cause negative consequences when carried out in human life. I don't use it, it's a dead word, but everyone knows what it means. Used in an extended way it's not really connected to religion, or any religion, it can be translated to any belief-system with different words.
But the meaning of sin is pretty much always described as a wrong committed against a religious edict, so its the wrong word to use to describe a personal flaw or weakness or simple propensity.
"any act regarded as such a transgression, especially a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle"-
Dictionairy definition
I don't see using drugs as transgressive of anything but draconian and destructive white-male law. I see theft and violence as transgressions of such law.
He mightn't but so many of his followers do. But my point was, how can we trust any human who claims to be speaking for god? This god has never spoken directly, only through the human medium, and I think humans are not always trustworthy when they tell others how to live their lives.
God doesn't impose himself on you. He wants you to come to the choice of doing something out of your own will or he knows it's not likely to last. So it's like he just waits for that time to come.
But he does if he is telling me I am sinning when I do things that harm no-one but myself. And that has been my point, that drug use can be a victimless crime for which no expenditure of guilt is needed. Of course, if it leads to actions like stealing or hurting people, those actions are to be regretted and learned from, but the drug use isn't responsible; YOU are.

Thats a hard fucking lesson really...
