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Meanwhile, religions with prohibitions against intoxicants, including Buddhism, Baháʼí, and Latter-day Saints (Mormons) forbid usage except with a prescription from a doctor; others have opposed the use of cannabis by members, or in some cases opposed the liberalization of cannabis laws.
The more modern religion of Rastafari (recognized by the Supreme Court as a religion) is quite popular among youth and African American culture. Even more recently has been the emergence of an entirely new religious philosophy: cantheism. Cantheism is a word that signifies any and all attitudes towards the cannabis plant as a religious experience.
The THC Ministry, founded by Roger Christie from the Religion of Jesus Church, is a religion [1] which considers cannabis to be a sacrament.Members base their practices on what they see as an eclectic mixture of ancient wisdom, modern science, and the enlightening and healing properties of cannabis sacrament.
The primary advocate of a religious use of cannabis plant in early Judaism was Sula Benet (1967), who claimed that the plant kaneh bosm קְנֵה-בֹשֶׂם mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible, and used in the holy anointing oil of the Book of Exodus, was in fact cannabis, [68] although lexicons of Hebrew and dictionaries of plants of ...
Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne ...
Elevation Ministries, the religious nonprofit organization behind the church, [1] was formally established in Colorado in September 2016. [12] [13] [14] Although Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, [15] smoking in public spaces remains banned. All ritual cannabis use at the church is by invitation only. [5] The church does not ...
Its religious uses in the Aegean world are intertwined with the mythology of the bee. Dacians were known to use cannabis in their religious and important life ceremonies, proven by discoveries of large clay pots with burnt cannabis seeds in ancient tombs and religious shrines. Also, local oral folklore and myths tell of ancient priests that ...
The primary advocate of a religious use of cannabis plant in early Judaism was Sula Benet (1936), who claimed that the plant keneh bosem קְנֵה-בֹשֶׂם mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible, and used in the holy anointing oil of the Book of Exodus, was in fact cannabis, [4] although lexicons of Hebrew and dictionaries of plants of ...