<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of <i>The Cannabist</i> (Denver, Colorado) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/06/27/michigan-cannabis-church-allows-marijuana/56939/">http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/06/27/michigan-cannabis-church-allows-marijuana/56939/</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Michigan church: Give us this day our daily weed</h1><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.35em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; font-family: Lora, Georgia, Times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.25; font-size: 1.5em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Pastor at First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason in Lansing wants to remove stigma from marijuana use</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LANSING, Mich. — A nondenominational Michigan cannabis church seeking to combat stigmas associated with marijuana use had its inaugural service on Sunday.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a href="http://on.lsj.com/28SkTG3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Lansing State Journal</a> reports that the First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason would be holding its first service at the Lansing Herbal Farmers Market.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leading the proceedings was 34-year-old Jeremy Hall, an ordained minister and state-licensed medical marijuana patient.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michigan voters approved marijuana use for some chronic medical conditions in 2008.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hall said he wants to have weekly services and provide a space where people can be spiritual, but also feel safe to take any of their medications. According to Hall, marijuana can be a part of a religious experience because it can help those in pain and create a sense of belonging.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“If they also feel cannabis is part of their</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> spirituality, they can combine the two in a safe environment,” Hall said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hall encourages medical marijuana users and nonusers to visit the place of worship. He expected about 40 people to show up to the first service.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to Hall, Lansing is the perfect place for the church since it has shown support for medical marijuana use and dispensaries.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2013, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2013/11/lansing_votes_to_decriminalize.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">voters in Lansing passed a City Charter amendment</a> that says nothing in the city’s Code of Ordinances applies to use, possession or transfer of less than one ounce of marijuana on private person who is at least 21.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since the service would be held on private property, Hall did not expect any problems or abuse of city rules and regulations.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the pastor of the First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason, marijuana can be a part of a religious experience because it can help those in pain and create a sense of belonging. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Cannabis Church of Logic and Reason</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="http://weedreader.com/first-cannabis-church-logic-reason-inaugural-services-sunday/">http://weedreader.com/first-cannabis-church-logic-reason-inaugural-services-sunday/</a></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div>  </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>