CCGUIDE · Cannabis Campaigners Guide
Reverend John Oliver, Bishop of Herefordshire
The original page linked to a UKCIA news article. That target now returns 404, so the dead link has been removed.
Verified & surviving sources
Church statements and rights material
The useful sources from the original page are retained here with working destinations. Where an old URL had disappeared but the same document survives elsewhere, the working source replaces it.
Link cleanup: dead 404 pages, parked domains, obsolete free-hosting pages and links that now redirect to unrelated homepages have been removed. Historical names are retained below as archive entries without misleading links.
UK Parliament · September 2001
Memorandum 15 — Church of England Board for Social Responsibility
The surviving Parliament copy of the Board's submission to the Home Affairs Committee on drugs policy, including its position on cannabis possession.
Open Parliament record → CCGUIDE archive Cannabis and human rightsCCGUIDE's historical material on freedom of religion or belief, privacy and cannabis-law arguments.
Open archive page → CCGUIDE campaign archive Send a letter to your Bishop, Vicar or PriestThe original CCGUIDE letter page linked from this section.
Open letter → Surviving external archive Marijuana and the Bible — Ethiopian Zion Coptic ChurchA surviving copy of material associated with the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, replacing the obsolete Xoom link on the legacy page.
Open archived text → Replacement archive Hempen culture in Japan / Hemp in ReligionA surviving archive of material formerly published at JapanHemp.org and Taima.org, including the original “Hemp in Religion” section.
Open archive → CCGUIDE Browse the wider site archiveUse the alphabetical index to find related history, law, medicine, hemp and campaign pages.
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Religious groups and churches
These entries preserve the names and descriptions recorded on the original CCGUIDE page. They are historical listings, not endorsements, and old contact details or organisational status should not be assumed to remain current.
Church's Board for Social Responsibility
The old NDSN page no longer exists. The surviving Parliament memorandum is linked in the verified sources section above.
Church of the Universe
The legacy page listed the organisation in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Its former iamm.com link now leads to a domain-sale page and has therefore been removed.
Sacred Herb Church
The original CCGUIDE description says the Boulder, Colorado church gathered in a circle and attracted “Rainbow Kids” and older Vietnam veterans. Its old free-hosting link is no longer retained.
Christians Against Marijuana Prohibition (CAMP)
The former AOL-hosted page now redirects to AOL's general homepage rather than the named organisation, so it is no longer clickable here.
Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
The original page listed the church and named Jeff Brown as a contact. A surviving copy of Marijuana and the Bible is linked above instead of reproducing obsolete contact details.
Cannabis Indications — use of cannabis in religions
The original Olywa-hosted destination could no longer be retrieved reliably, so the link has been removed rather than presented as current.
International Hemp Free Church
The original free-hosting destination is obsolete and is retained only as the title of a historical listing.
Cannabis in Tantric Buddhism — Paul Harrison
The former AOL page now redirects to AOL's general homepage, so the misleading destination has been removed.
Universal Church of the Holy and Sacred Herb (UCHASH)
The original page described this Norwich-based group as strongly Christian-influenced. Its old telephone detail is not presented as a current contact.
Original CCGUIDE material
Historical religion notes
This section summarises material carried by the old page. Historical, linguistic and medical claims are attributed to that archive rather than presented as established fact.
Sacramental use. The original page collected examples of groups and traditions said to have used cannabis or hemp in religious, ceremonial or sacramental contexts. The page mixed church statements, activist organisations, historical claims and links to older web resources.
African traditions. The legacy text referred to Bantu, Pygmy and Zulu traditions and also used a historical term for Khoikhoi peoples that is now considered outdated. It attributed religious and medicinal uses of dagga to these communities and cited page 53 of The Emperor Wears No Clothes.
“Dagga” and Sirius claim. The source page also repeated an etymological and cosmological claim connecting the word “dagga”, cannabis and the star system Sirius. This is preserved here only as a description of what the historical CCGUIDE page said; the page did not provide a scholarly linguistic source for the claim.
Freedom of religion or belief. CCGUIDE connected this subject to its wider human-rights arguments. Readers looking at legal questions should distinguish the site's campaign-era interpretation from current case law and legislation.
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