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Cannabis Assembly is a non-profit UK based religious group open to all people who declare a sincere cantheist use of cannabis. Cannabis Assembly promotes the freedom to use cannabis as a sacrament and medicine for the benefit of all people. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Species Cannabis indica Cannabis ruderalis Cannabis sativa Cannabis is a genus of flowering plant that includes one or more species. ... A sacrament is a Christian rite that mediates divine grace. ... Medicine on the Web NLM (National Library of Medicine, contains resources for patients and healthcare professionals) Virtual Hospital (digital health sciences library by the University of Iowa) Online Medical Dictionary Collection of links to free medical resources The NanoAging Institute Medicine News Categories: Medicine | Health ...


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History

Cannabis Assembly was formed in 2004 by Reverend Peter Brown and Reverend Paul Farnhill to provide free legal documents to aid and protect cantheist cannabis users. It has members in the UK, Europe, and North America. The Reverend is an honorary prefix added to the names of Christian clergy and ministers. ... FREE (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment) is the genre created by Yu Suzuki to describe the game series Shenmue, and thereon Shenmue II for the Sega Dreamcast. ... This article is about law in society. ... A document is a writing that contains information. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...


Beliefs

Cannabis Assembly states that their members "use cannabis to relax our consciousness and allow our sub conscious to reach a state of meditation thus allowing us to improve as human beings and enhance our understanding of the essence of the living universe." Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... Meditation usually refers to a state in which the body is consciously relaxed and the mind is allowed to become calm and focused. ... In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is. ...


And accepts all who declare their sincerity in their belief "that the Cannabis plant is a Sacred Herb and you can confirm that you use the Herb religiously, either as part of your meditation or prayer or to achieve a relaxed mental balance to carry out any aspect of your chosen religion." Sincerity. ... Belief is assent to a proposition. ... In various religions, sacred (from Latin, sacrum, sacrifice; or simply in English, holy) objects, places or concepts are believed by followers to be intimately connected with the supernatural, or divinity, and are thus greatly revered. ... Prayer is an effort to communicate with God, or to some deity or deities, or another form of spiritual entity, or otherwise, either to offer praise, to make a request, or simply to express ones thoughts and emotions. ...


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Indeed, the cultivation, trafficking and abuse of cannabis are different aspects of the global problem of narcotic abuse, which calls for the widest possible co-operation across nations.
Between 1996 and 1999, four influential scientific reviews were published on the subject of cannabis by the Standing Committee on Medicine of the Health Council of the Netherlands (1996), the WHO (1997), the Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Lords (1998) and the United States Institute of Medicine (1999).
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