Dazed and Confused

I once had a neighbor in the Cayman Islands who had a very weird belief. He believed that Bob Marley was a prophet from god and that weed is a necessity of life just like water or oxygen. This really confused me because I had never thought a man with dreads who sang about many issues including singing about smoking weed all day could be a prophet. Also how could a substance that causes a person to loose their sense of ability to think be a necessity to life. I was about 11 years old and never tried weed so I asked my mom of what she thought on the matter. She was astonished but what I had asked her and she told me to never talk to that man again. About a week later his views on life got him in trouble when the local police raided his apartment and took pounds of weed from his place taking him off to jail.