FRIAR LAWRENCE
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels.
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,
I must upfill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juicèd flowers.
The earth, that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb.
What is her burying, grave that is her womb.
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
Oh, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give.
Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (2.3.1-22)
Every plant on earth transforms specific energies from the cosmos, and therefore possess numerous virtues depending on their use. However, when such plants like marijuana are inhaled through smoking, the act of burning liberates many harmful chemicals to the body, mind, and soul.
Fire, Fohat, can crystallize positively or negatively. Smoking marijuana liberates the Fohat crystallized within this plant in a negative way, and when consumed by the psyche of the person, accelerates the degeneration of the drug addict through fortification of the animal ego.
Do not think that by quoting Shakespeare, "And vice sometime by action dignified," signifies that smoking or consuming marijuana is in any way ok. The elementals of these plants have their place within nature, but not when the physical plant is incinerated or consumed, since this negatively crystallizes the inverted Fohat within one's psyche.
Please do not believe that, based on this affirmation, possessing and using marijuana is fine in any way. We do not recommend using or possessing this plant at all, even under the guise of "elementotherapy," since most people lack will and are easily tempted by their addictions. We make this explicitly clear for all of our students, so that they do not allow themselves to be misled by the ignorant and foolish.
The demon Algol may not refer specifically to one being, but to the collective degeneration of humanity that consumes and abuses alcohol, because the excessive influence of intoxicants on the body, mind, and soul is truly destructive and demonic.