Cannabis Tax Demonstration & Prayer Service

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contact: The Healing Church, Anne Armstrong Deaconess 401-304-6543 [email protected]

Alan Gordon, Canon, 401-304-6020 [email protected]

Capitol Rotunda Prayers will Urge Governor to Repent

by End of Ash Wednesday on Cannabis Tax

Atlanta-area Orthodox Bishop arriving to “impose Order” on State, while

Local Deaconess Proposes Tax Benefit for Charitable Cannabis Giving.

RI Church: Governor misled by “vultures”, unlikely to have known

early Christian tax revolt included “KNH BSM” incense tax protests.

WHERE AND WHEN:

1. Ash-Making

Prospect Terrace Park, proceeding down to Roger Williams National Memorial Sacred Well site

Fat Tuesday February 9th 2016 10:00 am to 10:`15 am

Following authentic Biblical practices, Church members will be reducing lawful cannabis

products, such as hemp, to ash for the following day’s Ash Wednesday ceremony.

2. Prayer Services

Statehouse Rotunda, inside under dome

Fat Tuesday February 9th 2016 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

NOTE: The Healing Church and the visiting Bishop will be arriving from the downhill Roger

Williams National Memorial ‘s Sacred Well -- birthplace of US religious freedom -- where a

ceremony will be held in which the next day’s (Ash Wednesday’s) ashes will be made via original

Biblical forms, i.e. from lawful cannabis products.

3. Prosperity Peace Plan Presentation

The Slater Center Fat Tuesday February 9th 2016 2:15-2:45 pm

1 Corliss St, Providence, RI 02904

NOTE: The Church will hand deliver a “peace plan” to the State’s 3 Dispensaries, symbolically,

though the Slater Compassion Center, the one closest to the Statehouse. The Church’s plan

offers to enhance the beleaguered dispensary owners’ margins and customer satisfaction until

and even after legalization, in an era where the compassion centers drive legislation and pushed

the Governor to propose an extremely unpopular and expensive home-use tax on a Biblical

medicine, in order to “level the playing field” for the centers.




An Orthodox Bishop from Atlanta, Mr. Rt. Rev. Gregory Karl Davis, is arriving in RI to observe The

Healing Church, a RI cannabis-using sect, and to “impose Order” upon a medical cannabis

landscape confused this week when Gov Gina Raimondo sought to impose thousands of dollars

of new annual taxes on cannabis patients who grow at home, amidst claims by The Healing

Church that religious cannabis is inherently tax exempt.

Davis’ clerical lineage includes valid Apostolic Succession conferred by the rightful Patriarch of

the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, a legitimate Church of Antiquity with pedigree back

to the era of King Solomon. Alan Gordon, Canon to RI’s The Healing Church, once studied in GA

under Davis’ tutelage in an organization called “Brothers for Mercy,” but failed to complete

training and resigned the order. The two have communicated since then, but Gordon’s sect

claims Apostolic Succession through its Deaconess, Anne Armstrong, whose 2002 non-

denominational Christian ordination, and her earlier anointing by well-known Providence-area

Catholic Priest Fr. Randall are both disputed by Davis for alleged invalidity.

Armstrong and Gordon, for their part, point to the Biblical examples of “Eldad and Medad”, two

elders in the Book of Numbers who appear to have been acquitted of unlawful self-anointing

with cannabis oil, based upon the quality of their prophecies. Bishop Davis’ credentials are

super-valid, and yet the Bible shows the folly of exclusive titular supremacy, say the RI pair.

“Cannabis anointers without Priestly Succession have always arisen in the Hebrew faith, called

“prophets,” from Ezekiel to Isaiah to Jeremiah,” says Gordon, who points out that Jesus

instructed His followers to unlawfully anoint with oil that, according to the recipe in Exodus

30:23’s original Hebrew, contained 6 lbs of KNH BSM. Further, Jesus said that un-ordained

priests healing in His name were valid unto themselves, for “Satan cannot cast out Satan.”

Davis’ position is unknown in the RI tax dispute involving the Governor and the Compassion

Centers driving hasty, burdensome taxes on the State’s most gravely ill citizens, but he is

expected to comment in prayer services at the Rotunda on Fat Tuesday.

Armstrong, for her part, has designed a “Regenerative Braking” plan for the War on Cannabis, in

which patients, whose cannabis is currently neither affordable nor insurable, can get it virtually

free from existing Compassion centers and churches (but for perhaps a small storage, display

and testing fee) in exchange for valuable growers’ tax write-offs. Armstrong says this is the only

way to help patients, fairly compensate growers, and reward the Compassion Centers -- now

and into the future of eventual legalization -- for bearing the State’s proverbial cannabis cross

during the transition years of massive compliance burdens. Armstrong is scheduled to deliver a

speech and handout at the Rotunda Tuesday about the plan, before delivering a copy to the

State’s 3 dispensaries symbolically through the one nearest the Statehouse, the Slater Center.

Backers of an oppressive new cannabis homegrow tax were unaware of the role of cannabis in

scripture says Gordon, whose church’s interpretation is that commerce generates tax for

“Caesar”, but that Biblically Commanded acts are exempt, especially the smoke of KNH BSM, a

violence-ending, sickness-healing smoke called “the aroma soothing to the Lord” in the Bible.




Samples of Biblical cannabis-themed art in Boston’s Holy Cross Cathedral




Biblical cannabis-themed art in Washington DC’s National Basilica Shrine

(Note: the middle image above depicts a for-comparsion cannabis flower not shown in the Basilica)

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