The "Good People" (for which read, religious zealots) of Indiana, USA, have just passed something called the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) ". Their objective was to allow businesses and individuals to deny services to gays on religious grounds - a classic piece of legal bigotry that could only have been allowed in the USA.
But their hastily constructed legislation has a flaw. And that flaw has been exploited. By the "First Church of Cannabis Inc." - an organisation which 'believes' that smoking pot is part of its religion. Smoking pot is illegal in Indiana, but under the new law that can be overridden in the case of a religious observance.
So while attempting to legalise discrimination against gays, the zealots have actually opened the door to legal pot smoking.
Cool!
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