What is the promise and the Covenant, In my understanding; and God said; Let the earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and God saw it was good.

 Man's wisdom alone with out the Father's wisdom is a shallow and usually wicked and self serving of man. The Father's wisdom is given to men, so he may live well in his garden, and in his garden the Father put all things that are good, of him, not of man.

 It is not the herbs that are evil, the Father saw it was good green and seed bearing. Its man's law that makes greedy and evil men try to make the Lord's promise a lie.
 
 But the Lord said that no promise of his will be made a lie.

 And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepth upon the face of the earth.

 So God created man in his own image, In the image of God he created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. { GENESES 1:26-29 }

 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. And every plant of the field before it it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. { GENESES 2:4-5 }

 The Lord God is of all things and had all things before it grew.
                              
 For the earth which drinkth in the rain that come oft upon it, and bringth forth herbs meet for them by whom it was dressed receveth blessings from God.{ HEBREWS  6:7 }

 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputation. For one who beliveth that he may eat of all things; another who is weak eateth herbs, Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath received him.
{ ROMANS  14:1-3 }

 And God blessed Noah and his sons; and said unto them. Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the face of the earth. And upon all of the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even the green herb have I given you all things. { GENESES  9:1-3 }

 The herb that has offended the State, not a man, a thing, a faceless system that is somehow offended by the benign herb marijuana, promotes strong drink and its sin to humanity is not in question. For it makes money for the State in more Police, Lawyers, Court cost, and most important fines, ruining lives. I do not know how many marijuana users you know of, but I am sure you all know a drunken fool or worse someone killed by an alcoholic.

 What makes you think that the Lord would dwell in anything created by the hand of man.

 The righteous perish and no man lay it to his heart; and the merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil that is to come.       { ISAIAH  57:1 }

 The only way the herb marijuana has ruined lives is when man in his wisdom has decided that the Father's wisdom that God said; It was good. Man said; It was bad and passed a law on a benign herb from the Father, openly given in Scripture.

  Arrested and ruined countless lives with an unjustifiable prosecution of the innocent. The Teacher
 The Lord Jesus the Christ said; Judge not according to the appearance, But judge righteous judgment. { JOHN  7:24  }