Church of Reality Aims for Religious Pot
February 14th, 2007 by Alex
With a decision like that, you know lots of different “religious” groups are going to come out of the woodwork and try to test the ruling. Even though there are people out there who strongly disagree with us, tFS has made its views clear on the subject.
Using religion as an excuse to be able to smoke marijuana is ridiculous. Although, this doesn’t apply to the few legitimate institutions out there that use the pot as a sacrament and have been around longer than say… oh… the date of the Gonzales ruling.
Marc, the founder of the Church of Reality contacted the DEA to ask for a drug exemption for his organization. The drug exemption is specifically for marijuana.
Instead of summing up his reasons for writing to the DEA, I’ll use Marc’s exact words:
The Church of Reality is not a druggie religion. Our position is that one should use substances responsibly. We do however have chemically driven brains that can emulate logic. It is well established that smoking Marijuana can inspire creative thinking and I can tell you that this religion would not exist if not for Pot.
Lo and behold, the DEA responded and they are taking his request seriously. In the response letter, the DEA included 3 pages of highly detailed questions regarding the Church of Reality, its background and how & in what context it plans on using marijuana.
Marc intends to completely fill out the DEA questionnaire and get it back to them. I’m highly interested to see not only his responses but also how the DEA will play it from there. Out of all the different approaches to utilizing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, I have to say the Church of Reality appears to be taking the most level-headed and responsible route.
We’ll keep you updated…
[via Church of Reality]
