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Alert! Deadline Ends Soon! Help Keep Minister of God out of Prison!

Alert! Deadline Ends Soon! Help Keep Minister of God out of Prison!

Target:
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto 100 North Carson Street Carson City, NV 89701-4717

Reverend David Cook of the Nevada THC Ministry is facing drug charges for using his sacrament. We must, once and for all, put an end to religious discrimination in this country. It doesn't matter if you believe in his religion or not. All that matters is that we stand together to end this persecution for not having a "government approved" religion.

The case goes to court October 29, 2007. *****Update****The case has been held over until November 30th so we have more time!!

A few FACTS...

Cannabis has been used since before recorded history until 1936 when prohibitionist succeeded using the power of "yellow journalism" and false advertising to convince the American people that something called marijuana was evil and dangerous. Had they tried to convince people using the proper names Cannabis (as it was known in the medical community) or hemp (as it was known in the farming and industrial communities) they would never have achieved their nefarious scheme.

Today, we have the opportunity to change the way people think and the way our government treats Cannabis users. The Constitutions of the United Nations, the United States and the State of Nevada are quite clear on our religious rights and freedom, however the courts and law enforcement are still sadly ignorant.

Take the time today to sign this petition. Better yet, call or write the Attorney General's office in Nevada and protest this discriminatory practice.

Whatever you do.....DO SOMETHING.....or the next religion on the chopping block may be yours.

Thank You in advance for your support.

Reverend David Cook of the Nevada THC Ministry is facing drug charges for using his sacrament. We must, once and for all, put an end to religious discrimination in this country. It doesn't matter if you believe in his religion or not. All that matters is that we stand together to end this persecution for not having a "government approved" religion.

The case goes to court October 29, 2007. *****Update****The case has been held over until November 30th so we have more time!!

A few FACTS...

Cannabis has been used since before recorded history until 1936 when prohibitionist succeeded using the power of "yellow journalism" and false advertising to convince the American people that something called marijuana was evil and dangerous. Had they tried to convince people using the proper names Cannabis (as it was known in the medical community) or hemp (as it was known in the farming and industrial communities) they would never have achieved their nefarious scheme.

Today, we have the opportunity to change the way people think and the way our government treats Cannabis users. The Constitutions of the United Nations, the United States and the State of Nevada are quite clear on our religious rights and freedom, however the courts and law enforcement are still sadly ignorant.

Take the time today to sign this petition. Better yet, call or write the Attorney General's office in Nevada and protest this discriminatory practice.

Whatever you do.....DO SOMETHING.....or the next religion on the chopping block may be yours.

Thank You in advance for your support.
We the undersigned still believe in the power of our Constitution, including the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of religion to all citizens.

All religions are to be protected by this Amendment, including the religion of Reverend David Cook of the Nevada THC Ministry.

By affixing our signatures to this letter, we are asserting that Reverend David must be released from the legal battle he is now waging. There is no governmental compelling interest in denying a peaceful man of God his sacrament. No one has been harmed.

Cannabis has been used for millenia in religions all over the world. Sacramental cannabis is the container of the Holy Spirit and fosters peace, fellowship and brotherly love.

This case must end now. The American citizens are waking up to the facts of the failure of the War on Drugs, and we refuse to stand idly by while one of our own is persecuted in this manner.

Thank you in advance.
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# 312:
2:42 am PDT, Mar 28, Steen Jacobsen, Denmark
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# 311:
1:39 am PDT, Mar 24, Shannon Sultan, Wisconsin
# 310:
12:44 pm PDT, Mar 23, Juliana Morgan, Montana
Our government characterizes itself by being big brother! We dont need a big brother!
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1:59 am PDT, Mar 17, Danielle Ciccone, Hawaii
# 308:
4:14 pm PDT, Mar 16, Amber Lenzi, Idaho
# 307:
3:45 pm PDT, Mar 13, Kevin Black, Florida
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6:56 am PST, Mar 2, Rev. Valk, Michigan
# 305:
1:10 pm PST, Feb 25, John Jones, Texas
# 304:
1:25 pm PST, Feb 24, Bryant Mathis, Missouri
# 303:
11:13 am PST, Feb 21, Rev. Bro. Wayne Phillips, Canada
Prosecuting Rev. Adam E. Zuniga is an offense against G-d and the equivalent of spitting in the face of decency and integrity.
# 302:
7:38 am PST, Feb 16, Laura Hannaford, Canada
# 301:
6:18 pm PST, Feb 12, Rev. Thomas R. Johnson, Pennsylvania
As an American, a Christian and, Cannabis Sacrament investigator; for personal worship. i recomend that you go back and read the constitution of the United States of AMERICA... there is a part where the founding fathers (who by the way grew Cannabis, made paper from it and wrote the constitution on it) gave us religous FREEDOM and this was enforced by a UN resolution. the governments tyratical opresion will come back to haunt them someday. we as Americans have FREEDOM okay... FREEDOM to do what the government says we can do!!! wake up and see the truth on the other side of your bank book people!!!
# 299:
8:18 am PST, Feb 11, Gracja Kowalska, Poland
Religious freedom. Remember, cannabis is good and helps to communicate. He shouldn't be in court.
# 298:
10:53 pm PST, Feb 10, Name not displayed, Greece
# 297:
5:06 pm PST, Feb 4, Name not displayed, Texas
I want to know how to join the shemshemet ministry.
# 296:
12:47 pm PST, Feb 4, Mugali Schergen, Illinois
prosecute him and you're only further lying to yourself.
# 295:
9:38 am PST, Feb 4, Jonathon Meemken, Iowa
# 294:
9:20 am PST, Feb 4, Chris Wlliams, North Carolina
food. fuel. clothing. shelter. inspiration. please wake up and save our collapsed economy.
# 293:
6:38 am PST, Feb 4, Kelly White, Germany
I am a pagan, I've spoken with my Gods about cannabis and they have no problem with it, they encourage it as I travel my shamanistic path. They do have a problem with people from other religions or the secular side of things interfering with their will. I have just read that if cannabis as a sacrement were ever legally allowed, governments would have no way to enforce the prohibition of it. "Everyone would just say they are a Ras Tafarian!" The writer opined. This is not a good reason to take away my right to worship as MY gods wish to be worshipped. Either we have a right to freedom of religion, despite current popular governmental thinking, or we don't. If not, remove that fromthe constitutions of the world and stop lying about it! Can we get a coalition going here? I'm game. Kelly.
# 292:
8:53 am PST, Feb 1, Agnieszka Klocek, Poland
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6:47 pm PST, Jan 21, Brian Morr, Florida
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11:16 pm PST, Jan 17, Sabrina Carmichael, Florida
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9:54 pm PST, Jan 17, Nathan Fisher, Minnesota
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3:08 am PST, Jan 14, Anne Martinez, Arizona
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1:18 am PST, Jan 12, Name not displayed, Texas
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2:29 pm PST, Jan 9, Vidya Sims, California
# 285:
4:56 am PST, Jan 5, Name not displayed, Germany
Whatever
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5:19 pm PST, Jan 3, Name not displayed, Alabama
# 283:
4:54 pm PST, Dec 30, Dana Yandle, North Carolina
# 282:
7:01 am PST, Dec 28, Emma Seaman, United Kingdom
# 281:
9:39 pm PST, Dec 25, Reverend Baker, Colorado
Its sad when u cant get more support for something so right, i just seen a petition with 20,000 signatures to stop cat declawing. Dont these people think that a man loosing his freedom for a religious right given to him by our bill of rights is insane
# 280:
4:55 am PST, Dec 21, Name not displayed, Australia
Please....please stop being so closed minded people. Please give cannabis a chance. Make up your own minds, not propaganda.
# 279:
6:51 am PST, Dec 17, Zaina Escandon Francis, Guatemala
# 278:
9:31 am PST, Dec 12, Rev. Adam E. Zuniga, Texas
CANNABIS OUR SACRAMENT, MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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) MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 4. BRINGS MANKIND 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 mankind to God and God to mankind. 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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 . MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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 Shemshemet Ministry's Holy duties is to provide the blessing of its Cannabis Sacrament to those suffering and in need of its benevolent blessings. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 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. MEMBERS OF THE SHEMSHEMET MINISTRY ARE MANDATED TO USE CANNABIS SACRAMENT IN WORSHIP PRACTICES BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT SACRAMENTAL CANNABIS: 12. 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. Modified for the Shemshemet Ministry by the Shemshemet Ministry. Original text and author of this document by: The Religion of Jesus Church
# 276:
8:52 am PST, Dec 8, Tera Milam, West Virginia
# 275:
8:50 pm PST, Dec 4, Lee Wilson, Kansas
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9:33 pm PST, Nov 27, Patrick Wiener, Michigan
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1:10 pm PST, Nov 25, Isma Awendragoness, United Kingdom
# 270:
11:39 am PST, Nov 24, Brandie Hillman, Georgia
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1:16 am PST, Nov 23, Rob Sullivan, Texas
# 268:
9:31 pm PST, Nov 22, Kris Kramer, Florida
As a long time friend of Reverend Cook, I am outraged that legal charges have been brought against him for practicing his religion. I have known him for years now, and he is not a criminal. Using Cannabis to be one with God has changed him in the most positive way I've ever seen in anyone. Good luck, David.
# 267:
7:37 pm PST, Nov 22, AL. Mck., Canada
privacy is key to sucess thanks
# 266:
11:31 am PST, Nov 22, Isabel Silva, Portugal
# 265:
4:27 pm PST, Nov 21, Dawn Pickle, Washington
PLANT the SEED of ZION in the HEART of BABYLON and WATCH IT GROW!!!!!!!!!!!
# 264:
3:21 pm PST, Nov 21, Juanita King, New York
# 263:
1:27 am PST, Nov 19, TINA HOPKINSON, Australia
# 262:
10:46 pm PST, Nov 18, Orlin Larsen, California
Cannabis certainly has religious rights that cant be ignored espcially by the Justice System. We worship how we must.
# 261:
1:53 pm PST, Nov 18, Rev. Levon Lion F. Cordingley, Oregon
It is our personal belief system first; It is our religious association second; and never take a plea third of all. If you truly believe cannabis is your sacrament and are not trying to hide behind the law or use a loop hole, then without fear. It is religious defense or nothing. Very soon this will all be a memory. Good things are comming our way. Have hope and be a more positive influence. Many blessings and hope to all, Levon
# 260:
6:48 pm PST, Nov 16, Liz De Witt, Oklahoma
# 259:
5:20 pm PST, Nov 15, Mareesha Beiling, Ohio
Freedom of choice is the American way of life, as long as it hurts no one else. Certainly, a choice of what religion we are of is our soul's choice between us and God. No one has a right to hurt anyone's soul right to choose what faith we have or don't have. It has gotten out of hand in too many areas already. Thankyou, Mareesha
# 258:
4:30 pm PST, Nov 15, Andrew Mihalik, Tennessee
when will it just be legal like it was meant to be?
# 257:
7:00 pm PST, Nov 14, Hailee Wilkie, North Carolina
# 256:
5:59 pm PST, Nov 14, Rev Betsy Stang, New York
# 255:
9:49 pm PST, Nov 13, Steven Heaver, New Jersey
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11:46 am PST, Nov 13, Brian Larsen, New York
# 253:
5:14 pm PST, Nov 12, Terry L. west, West Virginia
# 252:
12:15 pm PST, Nov 12, Jean Wollenweber, Oregon
If he uses marijuana as part of his religious belief, he needs to be able to continue to do so, without risk of jail.
# 251:
5:27 am PST, Nov 12, Chant Sutton, France
Booze is worst then pot. I'm not into religon but more into spirtuality.
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