ONAC to open Sacrament Dispensary in So-Cal
It was in earlier this month that Oklevueha Native American Church took a huge public step forward in the defense of providing access to church sacraments to church members in southern California this month, when leases in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Westminster, California were signed turn will turn former cannabis dispensary storefronts into ONAC church sacrament dispensaries for church members. “I want to bring these healing medicines to the masses,” church founder James Mooney said in an interview with local media.
However, to the surprise of many, it would not be James Mooney to personally appear and bless the churches into existence, but instead Sachem Joy Maxine 'Hawkeye' Graves of Oklevueha Native American Church Kautantowit's Mecautea of the Pacific Northwest who would instead arrive to bless the first of what will likely prove but a mere wave of newborn ONAC churches across the golden state.
"Joy Graves is blessed as not only a member, spiritual leader and CEO of her own independent ONAC church, but is also blessed by James as the main Medicine Woman regarding cannabis sacrament in the whole of Oklevueha and is also recognized by James as the Emissary of the whole of Oklevueha, especially regarding the cannabis using ONAC churches, and has been specifically blessed by James to officially bless newborn Oklevueha Native American Churches into existence, and keep in mind too, ONAC is Matriarchal in nature, as too are the cannabis plants sought for spiritual and medicinal use, so who better really than Ms. Graves to bless these churches into their existence if not James Mooney directly himself?"
Graves came to the Huntington Beach location and performed a purification and blessing upon the building as well as those in attendance for the ceremony, which was covered by local media as well, which you can see by clicking on the link immediately here below for your convenience:
"This is the neighborhood I grew up as a kid, my stomping grounds, I mean, I used to ride my bicycle right by here as a kid on my way back and forth to the beach, I am honored to bring the blessing of these medicines back to the community I grew up in and who raised me."
Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates said the city’s response might depend on how the church operates once in town. “If it is a normal medical marijuana dispensary, as retail and distribution, claiming to be a church, that would be problematic,” Gates said. Please stay tuned for future updates on this and other ONAC related news and information.
