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Native American Church Fights For Right To Use Cannabis & Peyote

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 02/10/2016 - 08:45

The owners of a marijuana dispensary raided last month in ‘the OC’, the California county known as Orange, now say the premises was becoming a church that uses cannabis as part of its ceremonies.

Attorney Matthew Pappas said the Oklevueha Native American Church was in the process of turning the location in Costa Mesa into a branch of one of its 200 chapters nationwide.

So pleased to be part of Oklevueha Native American Church, plant based natural healing is times tested, old and... https://t.co/VeNBgFSqce

— Tracy Elise (@GoddessTempleUS) February 7, 2016

Despite California’s medicinal marijuana law, Costa Mesa prohibits sales in the city, but Pappas claims federal religious freedom laws allow the church to use cannabis as well as the psychoactive cactus peyote, ayahuasca, or "any other plant-based entheogen", according to Bia Labate.

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