# Is smoking marijuana haram? *His own view on marijuana: harmful for the young, not haram for a developed adult* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/53/ - Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (3:05:48–3:08:23) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11148s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/ **Topics:** Intoxicants and substances **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Marijuana is haram for the young because of the harm, he says, but not for an adult whose brain has developed, though Islam does not encourage it. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says that once a person's brain has developed, usually around 25, it would not be haram for them to take marijuana, though Islam does not encourage it. **Evidence, his words at 3:07:04:** “after that i've said that it's not something islam encourages in fact you know it doesn't encourage it at all how but it would not be haram if a person was to be to take marijuana” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=11224s) ## Longer summary On a serious note, Mufti Abu Layth refers to his lengthy video arguing that psychedelics are not haram but should be used sensibly, and his detailed video on marijuana. He says that because of the harm it causes to the underage and to those whose brains are still developing it would be haram for them, but once the brain's neuroplasticity has settled, usually around 25, it would not be haram for a person to take marijuana, though Islam does not encourage it at all and it is the person's own responsibility. He says he never called it a good thing and has advised people not to do these things, but that something not being good does not make it haram, comparing it to junk food, which can kill more easily, and the documentary of a man who ate fast food three times a day for a month. He adds that these are also issues of legality. ## Sources and names cited - cannabis (marijuana) ## Transcript (machine tier, 3:05:48–3:08:23) [3:05:08] oh yeah you gotta love it though you gotta love the sincerity you know spirituality isn't attained through uh psilocybin or dmt spirituality is attained through hajjut [Laughter] honestly i can't i can't get over it but people you know the whole point is we have to remember the uh the whole [Laughter] and keeping in mind the sheikh is now embarking [3:05:48] in a new realm so we've got this one is [Laughter] a dance with chancellor [Music] people please please please behave you know on a serious note people serious note look i've got a lengthy video explaining both psychedelics how they are not haram but how they are things which are done [3:06:25] should be done sensibly and i've got a detailed video on marijuana i've i think i've got more than one clip but i have a detailed overview in which i do highlight that look because of the harm it would cause in especially underage or certain people who are still developing the neural uh you know kind of plasticity in that sense there would be a taharim it would be haram in the sense of the harm it would cause but once a person has developed their brain uh its neuroplasticity is kind of [3:07:04] pain you know it's panned out which is usually around 25. after that i've said that it's not something islam encourages in fact you know it doesn't encourage it at all how but it would not be haram if a person was to be to take marijuana um it would be their own responsibility it is not i never said it ever said it was a good thing and i did advocate that people don't do these things but just because something is not a good thing does not make it hara okay just as junk food and things like this [3:07:42] in fact would kill you more easily if you were to binge on junk food and you could just watch the documentary of the guy who ate uh just full mac meals three times a day for a month and then went into cardiac arrest so and you know because that's what it would do anything in excessive means like like that would could potentially destroy people but it doesn't mean that thing is haram there is a sense of personal liability and responsibility upon the individual to in what they do obviously these are [3:08:22] issues of legality as well so that is the understanding as to dmt that is definitely not haram um neither is psilocybin and stuff like that mushrooms but these things are issues of legality but they are portals into to connect seriously with consciousness or what uh or right translate would be in arabic okay in my understanding but it definitely in a scientific sense him you know what he said there's no scientific proof there's an abundance of scientific proof i don't know what he's been looking at ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment --PntsaR8ck/s/53. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/53/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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