LOCAL NEWS
Court rejects religious marijuana use
Posted on: Friday, October 5, 2007
By Mark Niesse
Associated Press
The Hawai'i Supreme Court has ruled against a Big Island man who claimed he had to smoke marijuana to practice his religion in what he called the Hawaii Cannabis Ministry.
The court decided that Joseph Sunderland's freedom of religion didn't give him the right to smoke marijuana, but it didn't rule on whether Hawai'i's strong privacy protections would have shielded him.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
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