http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23869/steven-swallick-hawaiian-cannabis-ministries http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23869/steven-swallick-hawaiian-cannabis-ministries#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:09:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23869 Steven Swallick says he runs a ministry about marijuana. He says he mixed the marijuana with other ingredients to create anointing oil, a recipe he says he got out of the Bible.

But the jury didn't have to address the religious issue, just whether he grew it, possessed it and stole electricity to do it.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23869/steven-swallick-hawaiian-cannabis-ministries/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:59:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23316 In Today's RNB Roundup, • Inmate says jailers interfered with his Satanic religious practices. • Rastafarians tells an Italian judge their pound of marijuana was for religious purposes. • Quick, sell your TV: The PTL Club may soon be back on the screen • A look at Scandinavia's kinder, gentler atheists.

Also: • Leonard Cohen returns to the road, for reasons practical and spiritual, • Transcendental Meditation taught in American schools. And more...]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23131/religious-marijuana-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23131/religious-marijuana-3#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:39:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23131 Without comment, the justices agreed to hear Daniel Hardesty's argument that the First Amendment protections of free exercise of religion entitle him to use marijuana as a "sacrament" of his church. Both a trial judge and the state Court of Appeals rejected those arguments.

If the high court decides otherwise, it would be the first time in Arizona that judges have concluded there is a legal defense for those who use marijuana.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23131/religious-marijuana-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21923/religious-use-marijuana http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21923/religious-use-marijuana#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:41:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21923 There is no religious right in Arizona to possess marijuana, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday, saying freedom of religion is not the same as freedom of action.

The judges rejected arguments that the First Amendment protections of free exercise of religion entitle an Arizona resident, Daniel Hardesty, to use marijuana as a "sacrament" of his church.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21923/religious-use-marijuana/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:07:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21746 Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges, lawyers in a recent case and news reports said Friday.

The Court of Cassation threw out the drug trafficking conviction of a 44-year-old Italian Rastafarian, ruling that the amount he possessed was in line with the heavy use that comes with his religious beliefs.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21682/judge-dismisses-womans-religious-drug-use-argument http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21682/judge-dismisses-womans-religious-drug-use-argument#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:52:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21682 An Alabama couple asked a judge to dismiss criminal charges because marijuana is part of their religion.

The Shoops' attorneys also argued that they were protected by the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Alabama Religious Freedom Amendment because their religion mandates the cultivation and consumption of cannabis.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21682/judge-dismisses-womans-religious-drug-use-argument/feed 0