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Lot's of things are probably more harmful and polluting than smoke from individual joints. God doesn't necessarily operate on the same stigma that post anti-smoking campaign modern society does.
Now for a brief historical tidbit - Cannabis which is believed to have originated in the Hindu Kush region was traditionally used as a beverage by Scythians and South Asians, both Indo-European peoples. An archaeological dig a few years ago uncovered a Scythian vessel for making concoctions that contained residue of cannabis, opium, and ephedra. The vessels have been mistakenly called golden bongs On many news sites. A cauldron with a teepee for burning cannabis for ritual ceremonial purposes as described by Herodotus was discovered at another archaeological dig.
>T]hey make a booth by fixing in the ground three sticks inclined towards one another, and stretching around them woollen felts, which they arrange so as to fit as close as possible: inside the booth a dish is placed upon the ground, into which they put a number of red-hot stones, and then add some hemp-seed. … The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed, and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy, and this vapour serves them instead of a water-bath; for they never by any chance wash their bodies with water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2015/05/scythian-gold-vessels-used-in-hemp.html#lq0vfJrGJpaCJiQU.97