Workers at medical marijuana and medical cannabis collectives, dispensaries, and cooperatives may protect themselves from imprisonment by the U.S. government by being medical cannabis ministers (or medical marijuana ministers). See worker summary and owner summary.
This legal protection from inprisonment is easiest applied to the DEA and other federal agencies because of explicit Congressional law (RFRA) and related Supreme Court ayahuasca decision. A skilled lawyer should also be able to mount a religious defense in California state courts using the 1964 and 1965 peyote cases. The federal government recently used the federal Religious Land Use and Institutalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) to block the use of local zoning laws that interferred with religious beliefs.
Los Angeles, California, is currently sending out eight man teams of undercover narcotics agents, backed by SWAT and other police officers, to arrest owners and workers at medical marijuana collectives, dispensaries, and cooperatives.
This blog-like web page discusses the religious aspects of being a medical cannabis minister (medical marijuana minister). This is not legal advice. This is religious advice.
I attempt to make the information as useful to as many different religions as possible.
Free weekly instruction for medical marijuana ministers and medical cannabis ministers every Monday night in Orange County, California. Write to: Milo, PO Bx 1361, Tustin, CA, 92781. Post office box checked once per month.
available for immediate work The author of this website is currently unemployed and available for immediate work. Contact Milo, PO Box 1361, Tustin, California, USA, 92781.
I do not have a car, reliable phone, or e-mail. I need to find work within easy walking distance, such as Costa Mesa or Newport Beach, California.
If hired at a cannabis collective, dispensary, or cooperative, I will not impose my religion on anyone else and can work well with members of other religions.
I am willing to do almost anything that is safe, legal, and ethical. I work hard. I am reliable. I am friendly.
In this economy (and probably for several years) it is common for someone to be underemployed. I will still work hard at any job.
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I can be reached at: Milo, PO Box 1361, Tustin, California, USA, 92781.
The courts have already ruled in multiple cases that a person who starts preparing a religious defnse (including gathering certificates and other paperwork) after arrest loses all chance to use the late religious defense. It is essential that you prepare your defense before you are arrested. Adequate preparation may even prevent arrest. With that in mind, doesn’t it make sense for at least one collective owner somewhere to pay me minimum wage to work on preparing these materials on a full time basis? Even the most callous cooperative owner should realize that low paid workers facing prison sentences are likely to change sides and testify for the police? On the other hand, if the workers have a religious defense ready then they need not fear going to prison and have no incentive to testify against the owner. I don’t care how jaded and selfish a dispensary owner is, it just makes good sense to have a strong religious defense ready for your workers.
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