Trevor Douglas tried to explain to the Colorado state trooper that it was OK for him to have a little marijuana and a pipe in the car with him because he is a card-carrying member of a church devoted to cannabis-centered spirituality.

“It’s Christianity with cannabis as the main sacrament,” the 25-year-old Avon man says. “I use it to be completely in touch with the spiritual world and to discover my higher self. Cannabis has been used in religions before written history.”

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