The Ontario Superior Court is hearing an interesting religious claim this week from the Church of the Universe. The Church is claiming the need to smoke marijuana to commune with God.
Brother Peter Styrsky in Ontario Superior Court gave testimony that he was an aggressive, agitated delivery driver before turning to the Church and pot. He insists “It is a high. But it is not just recreational. It’s like a connection to God.”
Brothers Styrsky and Kharaghani are charged with marijuana trafficking offenses for allegedly selling street-level amounts of cannabis to Toronto police officers. The brothers claim to be ministers at the “G13 Mission” which sells organic plants.
The Church refers to pot as “the tree of life” and claims 4,000 members in Canada.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShCpykE-MF0
so sorry…..
GOD is you and me and everything else you persieve.Consume and embrace the tree of life cannabis and you shall find your higher self for a direct connection to GOD infinite conciousness and and tune into the reallity that you wish to experience.Be you and experience all that you can be.take this message how you wish to take it or dont take it at all.You are still here.I love all aspects of oneness.From brother shahrooz kharaghani
Well, at least they have one part of it right – and it’s not the god part 🙂
Actually I imagine that’s pretty close to the original rational for including booze in religious ceremonies.
hahahahahahaha! Well if the Westboro baptists can call what they do religeon and have it protected as free speech…WHO”S TO ARGUE???!!!
Brother Peter Styrsky in Ontario Superior Court gave testimony that he was an aggressive, agitated delivery driver before turning to the Church and pot. He insists “It is a high. But it is not just recreational. It’s like a connection to God.”
I have seen highly agitated people become really relaxed. Myself included….I can see searching for God, hell who knows you may actually find him or her or it….
I am sure someone will find this information useful.
National 420 Day is coming up soon, be ready and prepared. LOL
April 20 (4/20 in U.S. date notation) has evolved into a counterculture holiday, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.[1][2]
The term originated from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, United States in 1971.[3][4] The teens would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke marijuana at the Louis Pasteur statue.
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The cult classic 1936’s Reefer Madness also has 420 connections. The ‘Reefer Den’ home to all of the marijuana madness is number 420 on the street. The lesser known musical version of this flick hides the number 420 in random places throughout the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29
The first factor was local reaction to the highly punitive state penalties, which provided for a year’s imprisonment for possession of two ounces (57 g) or less, four year’s imprisonment for the sale of marijuana, and harsher penalties for repeat offenses. These unusually strict penalties received national attention when poet and activist John Sinclair was sentenced to ten years in prison for possession of two joints, a sentence that sparked the landmark “Free John Now Rally” at Ann Arbor’s Crisler Arena in December 1971. The event brought together a who’s-who of left-wing luminaries, including pop musicians John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Seger, jazz artists Archie Shepp and Roswell Rudd, and speakers Allen Ginsberg, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Bobby Seale.[2] Three days after the rally, Sinclair was released from prison after the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the state’s marijuana statutes were unconstitutional.
The second factor was the April 1972 election to Ann Arbor city council of two candidates from the Human Rights Party (HRP), an organization that promoted local progressive and radical causes.[3] In September 1972, several months after they took their seats on council, the HRP’s two council members spearheaded a bill that would reduce city penalties for possession of less than two ounces of marijuana to a $5 civil-infraction ticket. (The city penalty had previously been identical to the state penalty.) City police would then charge violators under the city ordinance rather than the state statute. The HRP representatives, by garnering the support of Democratic council members, quickly managed to pass the ordinance over the objections of council Republicans. In supporting the new ordinance, Democratic mayor Robert J. Harris told the Washington Post, “In this town, it was the only way to go. … We’ve made a great effort to get a decent relationship between the kids and the cops. Now at least we’ll get the police out of the marijuana business.”[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_laws_in_Ann_Arbor,_Michigan
She was living in a single room with three other individuals and I wouldn’t be surprised if they all were smoking marijuana.
Piece of advice to the court, don’t argue with fools, people may not see the difference. You don’t want to take these people seriously, but then again everyone already thinks you’re a joke anyway
And to these holy smokers, weed is supposed to OPEN your mind and eyes and teach you how there’s not a chance in hell that there’s a God, NOT the other way around… Some just can’t do anything right. A connection to God, go figure. I’ll give you a connection…
Although I’m pretty sure the herb doesn’t make one able to pick up the “Holy Bat-Phone”, it’ll be interesting to see how Canada handles this test of their human rights charter.
On the other hand? Finally an organized religion I can get behind.
Except for the “selling” part, boys.
If it’s sacrament as you assert, you should give it away. Even the RCC “gives away” the booze and cookies. True, that cost is absorbed by tithes but at least they don’t double bill. They molest children, but they single bill on their snacks. And selling sacraments is something ol’ Jesus would have probably given you a boot from the Temple for too.