Church Cannabis Claims Heard by 9th Circuit

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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments to let a local church get back marijuana that drug officials seized and destroyed. Excerpt from Courthouse News Service:

Michael Rex “Raging Bear” Mooney and the Oklevueha Native American Church of Hawaii filed a complaint … in 2009 after the Drug Enforcement Administration seized a FedEx package containing about 5 pounds of cannabis in Tupperware containers.

Mooney says he planned to use the cannabis in certain religious activities, namely “lunar use” and “sweat lodge use.”

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