Ringing bells and rolling joints, when nuns who smoke weed start giving advice, you'd be a fool not to listen. Sister Kate, one of the founders of Sisters of the Valley, a group of "activist weed nuns" who grow cannabis in California, has issued a warning to Australia. She says the country is "fighting reality" by clinging to partial decriminalisation while cannabis continues to circulate through the black market.
"I've been around the world. I've visited about 30 countries, and there was no country I couldn't get weed in. None," she told news.com.au. "I know growers in your country. I've been sent seeds from Australia. It's already happening, just in black and brown bags, completely unregulated."
The Sisters of the Valley live communally, wear habits and operate as a self-sustaining charity by selling cannabis-based wellness products in California, where adult-use cannabis is legal and regulated. Australia, by contrast, allows medicinal cannabis federally but still bans adult-use, except in the ACT where possession has been decriminalised.
Founded in 2015, the Sisters of the Valley are not a religious order in the traditional sense. They describe themselves as a "modern sisterhood rooted in social justice, women's independence and plant-based medicine".
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