#WeedWeek: How the Church of Cannabis became a legally recognised religion with weed as its sacrament

#Weed-week: How the Church of Cannabis became a legally recognized religion with weed as its sacrament

The church promotes love, equality, compassion and a prosperous way of life.

Bill Levin is founder and minister of the church

It’s weed week (4/20), a tradition that’s marked across the world to celebrate marijuana – and in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a controversial law known to deliberately suppress LGBT rights, unintentionally helped The First Church of Cannabis become a legitimate establishment.

The RFRA states that if you have a religion, the government won’t impede on your right for that religion.

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Bill Levin, the minister and ‘Grand Pooba’ of the church legitimised his church and congregation by applying for legal status, and was approved the very day the RFRA was signed.

grand pop

The church is established as a religious corporation, and is considered by law as The First Church of Cannabis Inc., while also making cannabis their sacrament.

A new level of high

 The church promotes love, equality, compassion and a prosperous way of life

The religion is not the stoner kind of gathering though

‘We are celebrating life, love, community involvement, and we are doing all the things that churches are supposed to do,’ Levin said in an interview with MSNBC.

‘Because we embrace the cannabis plant as our sacrament doesn’t mean we`re sad people.’

With over one million people legally using marijuana for medicinal purposes, Levin believes it is ‘the Healing Plant’.

Bill considers marijuana as the healing plant

Bill considers marijuana as the healing plant

And those that are members of his church also embrace it with their whole heart and spirit.

The drug is still illegal in Indiana and church members called ‘Cannetarians’ are not allowed to buy, sell or practice marijuana in all of Indiana.

With both a tax-exemption and recognition from the state, the First Church of Cannabis is a now a visible religion for worshippers of Cannabis to congregate.