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Oakland Church Uses Magic Mushrooms and Cannabis as Sacraments

Oakland Church Uses Magic Mushrooms and Cannabis as Sacraments

Psilocybin mushrooms

What they found

Oakland's Zide Door Church of Ambrosia, founded in 2019, treats magic mushrooms and cannabis as sacraments and reports 60,000 members.

Oakland's Zide Door Church of Ambrosia, founded in 2019, treats magic mushrooms and cannabis as sacraments and reports 60,000 members.

The number

The church has 60,000 members

How solid is it?

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Not a study

Not a study

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

At a glance

Latin name

Compound

psilocybin

psilocybin

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Shroomer

Shroomer

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Inside the Zide Door: The Church That Uses Mushrooms as Sacrament

Inside the Zide Door: The Church That Uses Mushrooms as Sacrament

Explore the captivating journey of Zide Door, the Church of Ambrosia, where nondenominational faith meets entheogens, as it navigates the complexities of religious freedom and drug enforcement laws while fostering a community united in the spiritual exploration through cannabis and magic mushrooms. The Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants was founded in January 2019 in the city of Oakland, California, to provide safe access to entheogens for religious purposes. Hodges asserts that the Church of Ambrosia is a legitimate nondenominational, interfaith religious practice that embraces the use of entheogenic plants, primarily cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms, as sacraments. The church has 60,000 members, who donate five dollars every month to cover sacrament and security guard fees.

Explore the captivating journey of Zide Door, the Church of Ambrosia, where nondenominational faith meets entheogens, as it navigates the complexities of religious freedom and drug enforcement laws while fostering a community united in the spiritual exploration through cannabis and magic mushrooms. The Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants was founded in January 2019 in the city of Oakland, California, to provide safe access to entheogens for religious purposes. Hodges asserts that the Church of Ambrosia is a legitimate nondenominational, interfaith religious practice that embraces the use of entheogenic plants, primarily cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms, as sacraments. The church has 60,000 members, who donate five dollars every month to cover sacrament and security guard fees.

Inside the Zide Door: The church that uses mushrooms as sacrament

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