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HZ US CHURCH OF CANNABIS
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Denver, Colorado, US – 26 September 2024
1. Wide of International Church of Cannabis on residential street
2. Wide of visitors outside entrance of church
3. Mid of visitors entering inside of church
4. Mid of church window with planets drawing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Berke, co-founder of International Church of Cannabis:
"We wanted to create a community where dogma wasn’t the common denominator in binding the community together, and instead it was cannabis and people who use cannabis in their spiritual journey. So we named it Elevationism.”
6. Visitors walking through church doors
7. Visitors taking pictures in church sanctuary space
8. Wide of visitors in church space
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Berke, co-founder of International Church of Cannabis:
"We are the first church that allows its congregation to bring its own cannabis into the church and consume in this sanctuary. We don’t provide you weed. We don’t sell you weed. We don’t make any money off of it. All of our services are completely free.”
10. Wide of visitors during “Beyond” experience
11. Mid of visitor looking up
12. Wide of Church ceiling lit up
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Berke, co-founder of International Church of Cannabis:
“We realised that people have been using cannabis in their spiritual journeys for so long, yet didn’t have a place or a home where they could pray, where they could be spiritual, where they could feel safe consuming their sacrament without the fear of getting put in handcuffs. So it was important for us to create a safe place for people who use cannabis as a religious sacrament, as a path to enlightenment, as a journey in becoming a better person."
14. Wide of church visitors
15. Wide of church visitors playing ping pong
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Berke, co-founder of International Church of Cannabis:
"Like other churches, we hold services, we hold community nights, we have volunteer programs, we feed the homeless, we volunteer at animal shelters, we clean up the neighborhood. We do all the things that other churches do, except we don’t preach one singular dogma. We don’t pretend to know the answers to life’s great questions.”
17. Mid of Steve Berke and visitor Be Be in church hall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Be Be, church member of International Church of Cannabis:
"I want to say: I’ve been smoking pot for 55 years. I’m 70 years now, and I enjoy… the reason why I enjoy it so much is it makes me happy. And I like the fact that we have a place like this to come to and to worship together. And it really helps to promote the one thing that will bring peace to this world, which is the belief in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men."
19. Wide of visitors playing Jenga
20. Mid of visitors playing Jenga
21. Wide of visitors playing video game
22. Close of marijuana plant installation
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Vaughn Wilson, church member of International Church of Cannabis:
"The discussion about the purpose in life and the soul and stuff… I don’t know anywhere else you can really have that open of a discussion. Like other churches, I go to Catholic churches and Christian churches, it feels like a corporate conference., it feels like a lecture a lot of the time. But this is much more like connected and personal."
24. Close of sign showing an elevationist Meditation prayer
26. Close of decorative bongs
27. Mid of visitors playing arcade game
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