PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Members of a church went to downtown Providence to show it is their constitutional right to use cannabis.
Services are normally held at the home of the church’s leader and former Rhode Island Gubernatorial candidate Anne Armstrong, but the group recently decided to pray publicly at the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence. Earlier this week, three members were cited for possessing a controlled substance.
Armstrong says, “This is a very important constitutional issue and if it can’t be decided here. I don’t think there is any hope for America frankly.”
Alan Gordon is a member of the church and says, “I’ve been a religious user since 1993… “I look at the bible. I read what it says and what it says is its full of this plant called cannabis in Hebrew that is depicted in scripture matches precisely what we call cannabis today.”
In a push to continue to worship at the park, the group asked the U.S. courts for an injunction, to legally be allowed to smoke marijuana during their 45- minute Saturday service. The Healing Church received the permit to hold a prayer service, but not the injunction, which meant law enforcement, would be standing by.”
Providence Police say if anyone is caught smoking marijuana illegally, they could be ticketed and if it’s a larger amount, they could be charged criminally.
Poster Comment:
If is there is a choice of between the Praise the Lord and Pass the Pot religious ritual practice here or the Praise the Lord and Pass the Rattler religious ritual of serpent handling….then, Brother, I ask for a third choice of neither.
