1. AMPLIFIES THE WORSHIP OF GOD

Sacramental Cannabis augments the worship of God. Nothing is more pleasurable than having a good time worshipping God. Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is within. Sacramental Cannabis helps one find and feel that God within. It is your good thought that leads you Godward. Sacramental use of Cannabis generally stimulates thought, evokes questions, and nourishes sacred feelings. Sharing sacrament with others is an exercise of religious freedom which amplifies the worship of God and is protected by the first amendment and federal law pertaining to the restoration of religious freedom.

"An experience is good when it heightens the appreciation of beauty, augments the moral will, enhances the discernment of truth, enlarges the capacity to love and serve one's fellows, exalts the spiritual ideals, and unifies the supreme human motives of time with the eternal plans of the indwelling Spirit of God, all of which lead directly to an increased desire to do the Father's will, thereby fostering the divine passion to find God and to be more like him."

(p 1458, The Urantia Book)

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2. HELPS CULTIVATE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH RELIGION

Sacramental Cannabis fosters the religion of personal experience in knowing and doing the will of God and serving the human brotherhood. Such is the religion of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.

Many of the founding fathers of the USA cultivated Cannabis for many reasons including sacramental and recreational purposes. They shared that experience with the living spirit of the Prince of Peace within even as we share the Sacrament with Him today when we ingest it. Through his indwelling spirit of truth and idealistic beauty, the Prince of Peace is able to be your personal spiritual life partner showing you the ideal way of living as you tread the pathway of spiritual growth.

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3. INCREASES SPIRITUAL ELEVATION

Sacramental Cannabis augments spiritual revelation during meditation and worship. God answers our prayers by giving us an increased revelation of truth, an enhanced appreciation of beauty, nature, and each other as well as an enhanced feeling of well being.

We each have a body, mind, spirit, and soul associated with a personality of self-consciousness and free will. When you feel God, you feel good; and when you feel good, you feel God. To experience this truth is to know great happiness and to know great happiness is to know the truth of God.

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4. BRINGS MAN TO GOD

Curiosity -- spiritual hunger -- crisis -- are sufficient reasons to experience the use of Sacramental Cannabis. There is no substitute for actual personal experience with a good influence that brings man to God and God to man. Many people have been deprived of spiritual experience because our church has been constrained from sharing our sacrament as is our constitutional right.

No one has the right to deprive another of liberty the right to love and be loved and the privilege of worshipping God and serving others. It is self-deception which leads intelligent human beings to crave the exercise of power over other human beings for the purpose of depriving these persons of their natural liberties. The golden rule of fairness cries out against all such fraud unfairness and selfishness. No one has the right to deprive another of those privileges of existence conferred by the Creator including their sacraments.

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5. INCREASES ABILITY TO FEEL THE PRESENCE OF GOD

It is not so important we should know about the fact of God as it is we should grow in the ability to feel the presence of God. Use of Sacramental Cannabis augments an individuals ability to know and feel that presence. There is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than discovering the will of the living God and that is the experience of doing that Divine will.

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6. HELPS CONQUER ADDICTION TO TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL

Sacramental Cannabis is a benign substitute to those who desire to conquer their addiction to tobacco and/or alcohol. It also serves as an antidote to the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion and intolerance.

7. CREATES PEACE

The hand cultivation of Sacramental Cannabis exerts an ennobling and expanding influence on people. The agriculturist is a peace loving person. A nurturing association with the Sacramental Cannabis plants instills patience, quiet, peace, reverence, meditation, spiritual awareness, enlightenment, awareness of the life force, and personal knowledge of God's ways. There is great therapeutic value in growing your own sacrament when it is done in conscious partnership with God our creator .

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8. HELPS EVOLVE THE SOUL

Sacramental Cannabis augments ones faith and contributes to the evolution of one's soul as one communes with the Prince of Peace and with our common Heavenly Father.

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9. SERVES GOD AS A MEANS OF HEALING

People benefit from utilizing sacramental Cannabis in conjunction with the body/mind healing values of Cannabis. Cannabis Sacrament as medicine/nourishment for the body and the spirit should be available to those who need it for relief from AIDS, glaucoma, nausea from radiation & chemotherapy, stress, muscle spacticity, asthma, loss of appetite, migraine headaches, menstrual related discomforts, and other human maladies. One of the Fragrant Cane Ministry's Holy duties is to provide the blessing of its Cannabis Sacrament to those suffering and in need of its benevolent blessings.

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10. ENHANCES SPIRITUAL RECEPTIVITY

One's inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity is influenced by growing harvesting and ingesting the Cannabis Sacrament. The bio-electro-neuro-chemical effects of ingestion enhances the interface between mind and spirit and augments spiritual receptivity. The effect maybe likened to what happens to the image in a microscope when a drop of oil is added on an oil immersion lens. It is magnified and amplified to the eye of the beholder.

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11. IS AN EXERCISE IN ACQUIRING GODLIKE ATTRIBUTES BY SHARING.

Sharing Sacramental Cannabis contributes to communion with God and fellowship with others in the spiritual association of the brotherhood of humankind.

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I2. IS A GOOD THOUGHT STIMULATING NEURO-HORMONE

The use of Sacramental Cannabis has the effect of a good thought stimulating neuro-hormone on the user. By faith YOU know YOU are sharing it with the indwelling spirit of the Prince of Peace and God the Father. By faith and action You can find Your spiritual path.