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Why there won’t be any cannabis at the First Church of Cannabis’s first service in Indiana
The First Church of Cannabis will host its inaugural service on Wednesday, but don’t expect any cannabis. The church’s founder Bill Levin said on Tuesday that the church will not include the drug also known as marijuana due to advance warnings from local law enforcement.
Marijuana is currently illegal in Indiana for both medical and recreational use, so the church could test the application of the state’s new religious freedom law. Marion County prosecutor Terry Curry and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Rick Hite held a news conference on June 26 to warn about arrests if people possess marijuana.
Levin said he does not want the question of marijuana possession to be considered in criminal court because he thinks the church will have a better chance of fighting in civil court.
“We will not be dragged into criminal court for their advantage. We will meet them in a civil court where the laws are clear about religious persecution,” he wrote on Facebook. “We do not start fights. We Finish Them!”
Cannibis is listed as the church’s sacrament in its doctrine, and Levin said the church will plan to grow hemp, though it will not buy or sell marijuana. Marijuana is a nickname for a strain of cannabis and both come from the hemp plant.
“I’m sorry, we have religious persecution here,” Levin told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
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The First Church of Cannabis will host its inaugural service on Wednesday, but don’t expect any cannabis. The church’s founder Bill Levin said on Tuesday that the church will not include the drug also known as marijuana due to advance warnings from local law enforcement.
Marijuana is currently illegal in Indiana for both medical and recreational use, so the church could test the application of the state’s new religious freedom law. Marion County prosecutor Terry Curry and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Rick Hite held a news conference on June 26 to warn about arrests if people possess marijuana.
Levin said he does not want the question of marijuana possession to be considered in criminal court because he thinks the church will have a better chance of fighting in civil court.
“We will not be dragged into criminal court for their advantage. We will meet them in a civil court where the laws are clear about religious persecution,” he wrote on Facebook. “We do not start fights. We Finish Them!”
Cannibis is listed as the church’s sacrament in its doctrine, and Levin said the church will plan to grow hemp, though it will not buy or sell marijuana. Marijuana is a nickname for a strain of cannabis and both come from the hemp plant.
“I’m sorry, we have religious persecution here,” Levin told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
cont at
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...irst-service-in-indiana/?tid=trending_strip_3
