INDIANAPOLIS — More than 100 people packed a “pot”-smoking Indianapolis church for a music-filled first service without their illegal sacrament, days after authorities threatened arrests if the congregation lit up during the rites.
Participants in the First Church of Cannabis’ service had planned to celebrate Wednesday by smoking marijuana.
But church founder Bill Levin decided to keep marijuana out of the service to avoid arrests and ensure he can test the state’s new religious-objections law in civil court and not on criminal grounds.