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It's a growth plantation. However, what we need to know is, yes, while there are medicinal properties that have been confirmed within the extract of the cannabis plant or leaf known as CBD or THC for medicinal purposes,

there is a recreational purpose that some think that just because it's allowed in certain places, so we can just go for it and it's okay.

So the example of this is similar to that of other things that are legal, perhaps in countries, but we wouldn't partake of it or drink from it or eat or consume from it because of it being unacceptable

from another angle. If you believe that, so if you're a Muslim, you would believe intoxicants are not permissible. You wouldn't drink alcohol and if you did, you would actually repent for it because that's what Islam has depulated.

They're not just Islam, there are a lot of others who also believe it's bad for the health. In Islam, it's actually disallowed, you know, the drinking of intoxicants or the taking of any intoxicants.

So even if a lot of it were to intoxicate you, a little bit of it is still disallowed. Now, it's just like the other drugs that we have, that are pharmaceutical drugs, where if a person is to take them, some of them,

because they are not well and because in a way that they have been prescribed by the experts of Metsam, the same would apply to this if it is allowed in your country, if it is legal in your country, then it doesn't mean that you can just abuse it.

So we do not condone the abuse of these drugs that may be legal, even if it's off the shelf drugs, even if it's just cough mixture. People who abuse cough mixture are guilty of doing something wrong.

The same applies to prescription drugs, sometimes pathodine and various other injections that people become addicted to. And they abuse these and they take them when it's not necessary or needed from a medicinal perspective.

In that case, it would not be allowed, it would be illegal even from a country perspective and it will also be unacceptable from a religious perspective.

The body is yours to look after and it belongs to Allah ultimately and we shouldn't be doing anything that would cause damage to it knowingly.

So when it comes to something, when it comes to cannabis for example, like I say, you know, the smoking of it is never beneficial in the Islamic sense.

The medicinal properties are acknowledged and at the same time, if need be and that is legal wherever you are and it's prescribed or whether it's from a herbalist or whether it's from some other expert for a condition that you may be facing, then it has been proven to be effective if it is taken in the correct way.

You need to find the more detail of that out CBD, THC etc and how to take it but not the smoking of it, Subhanallah, the recreational part of it.

It's like normal cigarettes for example. We would say that even though it's on the shelves in a lot of countries and some have banded, some cities are smoke free, it doesn't mean that because it's available on a national level or in your country that it's suddenly good for you or it's even permissible.

In the same way this and many other things, you know, we have for example, adultery is perhaps allowed in a lot of countries but that doesn't make it okay for you and I who would like to stay away from it.

And the same applies to other sins that are there, you know, immorality, even to say words that might be low in terms of morality and like swear words, abusive words.

It might not be illegal to a certain extent but from a religious perspective it's not what we should be doing and we should stay away from those words.

It's opt for clean words, opt for a clean diet, opt for that which is clean, halal and bayibin, it needs to be halal one hand and it needs to be bayibin, pure and good on the other.

So we opt for these words and we opt for this type of lifestyle, a clean lifestyle, a beautiful lifestyle, that which is free from anything that we would consider degrading even in the least or if not degrading the net which is bad perhaps or that which is not completely pure and good.

So let's understand this, my brothers and sisters, a lot of people don't like to talk about weed and a lot of people don't admit that it has medicinal properties for those who require it, for those who need it, for those whom it is prescribed, for in a way that it is prescribed and also making sure that it's legal in your country.

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