Rollingstone mag talks of sham cannabis churches
Some of you have been beginning to wonder why we as KM are continuing to put emphasis on the proclaimed churches who are claiming rights to the use of cannabis as "sacrament" when we ourselvess claim it as one of our primary focal sacred medicines. We hope that the article link we are offering you immediately below will best help you comprehend Why:
For those of you who don't want to take the time to pop over and check it out for yourselves, we will go ahead and provide a few pertinent excerpts which we feel should help clarify our reason and position for ya, it's titled "Are Weed Churches Legitimate Houses of Worship, or Just Another Way Around Marijuana Law?Organizations holding religious services claim they should be able to sell pot as “sacrament” — others say it’s an excuse to run unlicensed dispensaries" and for those wondering, it was published in RollingStone Magazine on March 3rd of this year!
"Other marijuana traffickers have been trying this tactic for years — most notably a controversial, multi-state organization called the Oklevueha Native American Church — and failing. Oklevueha has won the legal right to perform peyote ceremonies with non-Native folks, but hasn’t been able to budge the courts on our mother medicine except for when standing in confederation with one who has such as "Green Faith Ministries" of Colorado, or we as KM have in the state of Oregon.
Multiple small-scale churches that claim to specialize in cannabis ceremonies and healing rites are becoming increasingly common across the country, and especially getting notable attention in the golden state of California where just Okllevueha's "mother church" alone has "blessed" more than 200 "child church chapters" within a single year, creating yet more competition for retailers that want to operate as for-profit ventures instead of tax-exempt religious institutions. But as we say, that is but only one, they're are many others doing the same thing, and collecting tens of thousands of dollars for the blessing to present themselves as legitimately operating upright churches.
Ultimately what ends up as the final result is these proclaimed churches end up getting as much money as they can and then end up disappearing like ships in the night when it comes time to defend their claims of true spiritual reason, which makes all of we churches with integrity and sincerity look bad thanks to their shadows of doubt left in the minds of the masses, and that is among the Least of consequences becoming commonplace thanks to snakes claiming sincere spirituality in effort of slithering around the laws of man hoping to get rich quick in this snakeoil sham.
In Indiana, for example, a judge ruled that a local First Church of Cannabis would not be legally allowed to use marijuana as a religious sacrament, finding it would be impossible to battle illicit drug trade “while allowing a religious exception that would be ripe for abuse.”
And make no mistake in that this is what you're now starting to see kick into action because cannabis indeed is being exploited to beyond full potential for this "new billion dollar industry" in a virtuous economic cycle that bares no moral conscious to those selling her like an old worn out whore until no more!
You see, once upon a time ago, all of the plant family cannabis was not only "legal" but also too, Appreciated by the masses who found use and benefit from them, until August of 1937 when the US Federal government prohibitioned cannabis sativa so to eliminate their new industrial economy off of plastics and nylon fibers and the petro-chemical Only when the country goes broke and needs quick cash do the government lax the cannabis laws and disposition, such as we saw during WW2 in 1942-43.
For those of you not knowing of this, we Highly recommend you google search "U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hemp for Victory" because they admit to it with great pride with the dollar signs gleaming in their eyes.
They have fought us every step of the way since war's end, especially when we began gaining states rights under medical cannabis exemption sanctions and collected tens of millions of dollars for licensing and other fees and taxation... especially via Dispensaries! Reflect back to 1995 when they maintained "Zero Tolerance" collectively (state and fed) but at how much states are now boastfully gaining annually for the same plant family they've insisted is among the most "dangerous and deadly drug to come down the pike." Truth be told you see, cannabis has never been dangerous or deadly to anything but their personal profiteering, and that Will prove to be an underlying factor regarding this as it all continues playing itself accordingly to it's and our future destiny, and you can believe and bet in that even the dispensaries will divide themselves from cannabis using churches because they are and will continue to take away profits from licensed legal dispensaries, pay no taxes to local and state, and do not have to conform to testing and purity standards for their product.
Once upon a time ago, we gorilla growers cultivated and did what we have to medically help ourselves and other people in need of what we call our "mother medicine" cannabis she alone best offers and provides us. As a church whose already been deemed upright and legitimate under both state and federal scrutiny, we know well that not all patients can afford the prices of these “legal dispensaries" even with a dollar or two discount for being a medical cannabis patient - before or after the taxes are applied to the total bill!
As always, we thank you for your interest, contributions and your support and we Hope you will stay tuned!
