Dear spiritual master,

all glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Please accept my obeisances.

You wrote on WhatsApp:

"One devotee, our "student", is really good guy. Had a Ganga addiction.

In his state Medical Marijuana cultivation collective is legal.

So he started one and it had 75% effect of neutralizing his addiction."

Please, could you explain more?

I understand that there is a typing error Ganga-ganja, however, I do not understand the whole meaning of the message.

Thank you!

Your servant Namacarya Das

HpS - So, nice to hear, agtSP, from you.

Yes, Ganja.

I think, most of the story is above.

Most of our addictions are not chemical situation, no?

University of California explains that. They comment that the real problems are social or ...spiritual...

Even and ant wants to get intoxicated. They we eat honey until they cannot walk.

It is a natural situation of the soul.

Drink the unadulterated nectar of the holy names.

kinibo lutibo, hari nama rasa.

By the Names effect I shall become paralyzed.

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Srila Prabhupada said, that if you want to get free from substance abuse, then take the time and effort to cook nice bhoga for your deities, and then honor it, regularly, deeply.

Works.

Hanging out with other people who are involved with Ganja while chanting Hare Krsna, we see the broad social ambience and we see the advantages and disadvanteges, and change our lives!

Any more specific questions, thoughts?