Church of Cognizance founders can’t escape drug charges

Posted by religion world Thursday, May 27, 2010

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Church of Cognizance founders can't escape drug charges

Church of Cognizance founders can't escape drug charges

Church of Cognizance Dan and Mary Quaintance in 1991 founded the Church of Cognizance, organized around the principle that marijuana is a deity and a sacrament.

A federal district court in New Mexico found that the couple's beliefs were not religious and added that they failed to show that those beliefs were sincerely held.

On appeal, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 19 affirmed the denial of the couple's RFRA defense in United States v. Quaintance.



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