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Church members push to use marijuana during religious services

Submitted by Marijuana News on Sat, 05/23/2015 - 22:48

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Members of a church went to downtown Providence to show it is their constitutional right to use cannabis.

Services are normally held at the home of the church’s leader and former Rhode Island Gubernatorial candidate Anne Armstrong, but the group recently decided to pray publicly at the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence. Earlier this week, three members were cited for possessing a controlled substance.

Armstrong says, “This is a very important constitutional issue and if it can’t be decided here. I don’t think there is any hope for America frankly.”

Alan Gordon is a member of the church and says, “I’ve been a religious user since 1993… “I look at the bible. I read what it says and what it says is its full of this plant called cannabis in Hebrew that is depicted in scripture matches precisely what we call cannabis today.”

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