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Marijuana on Religious Grounds? A Cannabis Church Opens in Denver
NYT ^
| 4-20-17
| JACEY FORTIN
Posted on 04/20/2017 6:09:57 PM PDT by dynachrome
For the International Church of Cannabis in Denver, there were three reasons to celebrate on Thursday.
First, it was opening day. The church, a more than century-old building recently adorned with brightly colored paintings by the artists Kenny Scharf and Okuda San Miguel, welcomed the public early in the afternoon, at which time no cannabis consumption was allowed inside.
“It seemed to be a nice steady flow of people,” said Lee Molloy, a founder of the church and a member, who estimated that a couple of hundred people had come by.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bluezones; cannabis; church; colorado; denver; marijuana; pot; potheads; religiousleft; urban; wod
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Who or what are they worshipping? pot as their god?
To: george76
dunno what to say about this one. If scientology is a religion why not pot ?
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:11:07 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
Not particularly sold on the idea of getting high to worship God.
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:12:41 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: beaversmom; dainbramaged; TheStickman
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:14:16 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
To: DoughtyOne
The church of the sacred doobie.
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:17:23 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: dynachrome
Their sacramental food is “cool ranch” doritos and mountain dew.
“we shall now open our missalettes to the book of choom, Chapter 4, Verse 20”.
Okay, I’ll just let myself out.
CC
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:21:35 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: dynachrome
During prohibition churches still had wine for communion
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:21:48 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Has a nice ring to it...
/s
“:^)
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:24:13 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: dynachrome
"Who or what are they worshipping? pot as their god?" Hell, why not? muslims are getting away with worshiping murder ...
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:24:38 PM PDT
by
Baynative
( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
To: dynachrome
The most memorable episode of the old Tom Snyder show covered this pretty thoroughly . . . even making the sacramental wine analogy.
"Yes, that's all well and good but the priest doesn't get stoned out of his mind at mass . . . ."
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:28:43 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: dynachrome
April 20 : Hitler’s Birthday / Cannabis Celebration ?
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:29:19 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: dynachrome
What....Rastafarianism wasn't "good enough" for them; they had to invent something else?
Good grief, dopers are NUTS!
To: dynachrome; MileHi; Balata; bboop; Benito Cereno; BulletBobCo; bravo whiskey; Carley; ColoCdn; ...
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:30:03 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: dynachrome; All
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:30:20 PM PDT
by
musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
To: dynachrome
If there’s a church of sacred hallucinogenic mushrooms, cannabis is not unreasonable IF limited to religious rites - on a limited basis.
Yes, I realize this opens the door to daily mass with marijuana. Or Hail Marys with multiple marijuana hits.
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:30:55 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: dynachrome
Tobacco kind of served that purpose to American Indians.
To Christians this would be a sin (sorcery). I don’t expect interfaith worship with Baptists anytime soon.
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:31:28 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: dynachrome
many freepers worship at that altar...sadly....
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:32:49 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: nopardons
“Rastafarianism”
Most are black, maybe this will be a segregated church?/s
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:43:08 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
Do they worship Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica?
Or are they ecumenical?
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posted on
04/20/2017 6:43:46 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
To: dynachrome
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