Jesus and Pot

I've seen this news story linked on various blogs over the past few days:

BBC: Cannabis linked to Biblical healing
Guardian: Jesus 'healed using cannabis'

Let's just say I'm more that a little skeptical about this. The article that supposedly proves this appears in a pro-drug magazine, so there's definitely an agenda.

Just to clarify, I don't have a problem with medicinal marijuana. And although I don't believe in drug use, I think marijuana should probably be legalized (although not "hard drugs").

But the assertion that "Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user" is just pure speculation. There's no real proof offered here. And there are no references that I can find to Jesus using potions or incense in the Bible. To me, this looks like another special interest group trying to use Jesus to promote their agenda, much like PETA claiming that Jesus was a vegetarian.

(First link via Mark Shea, second via Lynn Sislo.)