The Pastor Who Exposed Weed's Attack on Your Brain

The steam filled the bathroom like a thick fog as the young person turned on the shower, sealing themselves in with the rising vapor. It was their first time, and the hot-boxed space would amplify everything. What followed was an hour or two of floating—literally feeling like their feet never touched the ground, tapping and stomping just to confirm they were still connected to earth. Time moved like molasses. Driving ten miles per hour in a forty-mile-per-hour zone. Responses delayed by five whole minutes, no matter how hard they tried to speed up their mind.

That was just the beginning.

Years later, Pastor Craig Lewis would stand before his congregation with a warning that cut through the cultural fog surrounding marijuana. His message was clear: "The devil wants people to smoke weed so it will disconnect their frontal lobe, the guardian where morality rests."

The frontal lobe, Lewis explained, is where the Holy Spirit operates in believers. The Holy Spirit's role, Lewis explained, is to "guide them into all truth, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." It's the brain's headquarters for respect, discernment, and spiritual sensitivity.

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"When you get high, you're disconnected from them," Lewis preached. "The roaring lion is walking about, looking for folks that are high because it's easier."

What Lewis was describing aligned perfectly with ancient biblical warnings about pharmakeia—the Greek word for sorcery that literally involves drug use leading to spiritual deception. This very plant had become what Scripture warned would deceive nations and lead them away from divine truth.

Every time the New Testament condemns "sorcery," it uses the Greek word pharmakeia—which literally means using drugs to alter consciousness for spiritual or emotional effect. Scripture warns that pharmakeia leads to spiritual deception and prevents people from inheriting God's kingdom, exactly as marijuana demonstrably "turns down the volume" on spiritual hearing. When someone smokes marijuana to find peace, escape reality, or alter their mental state instead of seeking God, they're practicing what the Bible defines as sorcery—regardless of cultural acceptance or personal intent.

Science confirms what the pastor proclaimed. Research published in Neuropsychopharmacology reveals that chronic marijuana users showed lower activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—the exact region responsible for moral decision-making. A 2023 Massachusetts General Hospital study found that THC led to reduced connections and activity within the brain's prefrontal cortex, a region important for decision-making and self-control.

The University of Colorado's largest-ever study on cannabis and brain function discovered that heavy cannabis use appeared to reduce brain activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and anterior insula—regions involved in decision-making, memory, attention and emotional processing.

But for one person, the science came after the experience.

When the Volume Gets Turned Down

"I used to blow it down," they admitted, reflecting on their twenties when smoking became as routine as clocking out from work. Social smoking turned into having multiple dealers. Client meetings sometimes included rolling up together. The habit had evolved from occasional experimentation to daily ritual.

Even more startling—they used to smoke before reading the Bible, somehow convinced this enhanced their spiritual experience. "The Lord of his grace still allowed me to take in his word and understand it because I already had the holy spirit in me even while I was smoking."

But grace has a way of bringing conviction.

The Holy Spirit began speaking, gently at first, then more insistently. Something was wrong. What started as a simple desire—something Scripture calls a "work of the flesh"—had grown into a spiritual blindfold. The problem wasn't just spiritual—it was practical, measurable, undeniable.

"I literally stopped smoking because I became dull of hearing. I couldn't hear the holy spirit as well. And my memory was getting affected."

Someone who had always possessed detailed, photographic memory watched their mental sharpness disintegrate. Dreams became affected. Spiritual gifts felt muted. Most devastating of all: "I would hear the audible voice of God all the time, all day, every day. Man, that weed turned that volume down."

It was exactly what Scripture warns about—spiritual ears becoming "dull of hearing" and spiritual eyes growing clouded, not through some mystical curse, but through the very real, measurable impact of a substance on the brain's God-designed centers for moral and spiritual processing.

The parallel to Pastor Lewis's teaching is striking. He spoke of marijuana allowing "entrance or ownership of another entity" and disconnecting people from "what you know as God."

Jesus promised that "The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you."

The Swap

While the world promotes cannabis for anxiety relief and therapeutic benefits, believers face a different calculation. As the testimony reveals: "You're literally swapping out the Holy Spirit for the spirit of marijuana."

The biblical command is unambiguous: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."

The ancient Greeks had a word for this: pharmakeia—drug-induced spiritual deception that leads nations astray. What modern culture celebrates as harmless recreation, Scripture identified millennia ago as a pathway to spiritual blindness.

The Choice

The testimony concludes with a stark comparison: "The holy spirit is gonna bring to your remembrance all that's been said to you. Marijuana is gonna take away the remembrance of all that's been said to you."

Research from Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research confirms that cannabis impairs cognitive functions including the ability to plan, organize, solve problems, make decisions, remember, and control emotions and behavior.

Standing at the crossroads between cultural acceptance and spiritual discernment, the choice becomes clear. Scripture warns that what appears as harmless pleasure often represents what it calls "works of the flesh"—desires that war against spiritual fruit like self-control and clear thinking. On one side: a substance that demonstrably impairs the brain's moral processing centers and has been linked since ancient times to spiritual deception. On the other: the promise of divine guidance, enhanced memory, and spiritual clarity.

"Walk out of everything the world told you about weed and walk into what the word of God says." The volume is waiting to be turned back up. Get #lockedinchrist