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Native American Church’s sacred plants destroyed during raids in CA, suit says
Sacramento Bee ^ | June 3, 2025 | By Julia Marnin

Posted on 06/03/2025 7:12:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A Native American Church affiliate in Southern California says a sheriff’s department seized and destroyed “thousands” of psychoactive plants revered as sacred, interfering with members’ religious practices.

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Members of the Native American Church, as part of centuries of spiritual tradition among Indigenous people, use “sacred plant medicines such as peyote, cannabis, and other entheogenic sacraments,” according to the lawsuit, which was moved to federal court on May 21. The use of peyote and cannabis as entheogens, psychoactive substances used religiously and ceremoniously, are “essential to (the Native American Church’s) worship,” a complaint says.


Cannabis is not native to North America but was brought here by the evil colonizers.

1 posted on 06/03/2025 7:12:52 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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2 posted on 06/03/2025 7:14:37 AM PDT by Fido969
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Everything is “sacred” to these low-lifes.

Meanwhile everyone else’s drugs get comfiscated and graveyards get bulldozed while these cry-bullies sue.

Fk them on stick.


3 posted on 06/03/2025 7:17:36 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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I figured it was marijuana when I read the headline. Native-American inmates doing time in NY State prisons, back in the 80’s were trying to get approval to use marijuana during their religious ceremonies too. I retired in 2003, and up to then, the State never allowed it. I tried to do a search to find if the policy has been changed since then, but nothing related to that specific issue came up.


4 posted on 06/03/2025 7:23:10 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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Were the plants on Indian reservation land?

If not, I don’t see the connection. There are Federal laws even reservations must follow, too.


5 posted on 06/03/2025 7:25:44 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The sacbee is just a silly little rag infested with delusion


6 posted on 06/03/2025 7:29:45 AM PDT by iamgalt
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Anyone else beginning to get NATIVE AMERICAN SACRED PLACE fatigue yet? /s


7 posted on 06/03/2025 7:35:54 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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8 posted on 06/03/2025 7:36:15 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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9 posted on 06/03/2025 7:37:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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The Native United States people?

If any group is the opposite of “Native American” it would be indians, I think the people of 1776 would have something to say if they learned about their place in modern American language.


10 posted on 06/03/2025 7:39:37 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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You mean all of that dancing around, war chants, painting their faces and screaming, like in the movies, is because of cannabis? ROFL


11 posted on 06/03/2025 7:52:21 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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It’s not a real church. It was just created out of thin air so they could sue to use peyote.


12 posted on 06/03/2025 8:11:01 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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More political warfare - the only ‘resistance’ that native groups find to be successful.

“Sacraments”, “burial sites”, “repatriation” - all are just ploys to stick it to the whitey invaders.

Reminds me of a fellow I met in the military - he fled his reservation and enlisted to go to Vietnam. Felt it was safer than staying on the res - rightfully so, as all the guys his age that did stay died before the age of 25 from violence and/or drugs.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 8:18:45 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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My dear friend was refused a religious exemption when she objected to the Covid Vax as a condition of keeping her job. She appealed and lost.

Took the first shot and the skin on her hands and arms peeled off - she was wrapped up like a mummy and said the pain was almost unbearable. She knew it was from the shot and refused the next two. She ended up losing her job - finally the religious exemption was accepted but by then she was so angry that she never went back.


14 posted on 06/03/2025 8:26:47 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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So I guess if I started a “Church of the Sacred AR15 and its 222 ammo” would I get a bunch of followers?


15 posted on 06/03/2025 9:36:56 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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You would get a much larger following if you went to 223


16 posted on 06/03/2025 10:22:10 AM PDT by Cold Heart (It's a good time to be ashamed to be a democrat)
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Crystal Methodists.


17 posted on 06/03/2025 10:46:15 AM PDT by DPMD
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I smell a HUGE lawsuit coming down the mountain and eventually REWARDING MANY... all in the name of PROTECTING "Religious Rights."


18 posted on 06/03/2025 12:26:44 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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