PRESS DEMOCRAT
Clark Masonthe
January 15, 2016
A sign at the entrance to the property on Lawndale Drive in Kenwood for
a branch of the Oklevueha Native American Church. (Courtesy photo)
In what could be a test case to create a legal category of “sacramental marijuana,” a Kenwood branch of a church co-founded by a man claiming Native American heritage is suing Sonoma County, contending that the branch’s cannabis was wrongfully seized by deputies because its members are entitled to it for religious purposes, similar to exemptions made for peyote and ayahuasca use by some native groups.
Mooney is a medicine man descended from Seminole Indians in Florida and his church serves the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge South Dakota, according to the church’s court filings in the San Francisco case.
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