'This is what we truly believe is the origin of all religion and really what religion should be.'
that the city, its police department, and an individual officer involved in a 2020 raid infringed upon the church's first and 14th amendment rights when confiscating roughly $200,000 worth of weed and psilocybin mushrooms.
Oakland and its police department discriminated against the church's beliefs when seizing the drugs, Zide Door — the physical location for thePolice claimed during the August 2020 raid that they'd been tipped off that the church was selling drugs, though church founder Dave Hodges categorically denies the claim, saying instead that the church gives cannabis and mushrooms out for free as sacraments to paying — or, er, tithing — church members.
Though cannabis is legal on the state level in California and a growing number of other states, it remains illegal on the federal level and one must obtain a license from the state to sell it. Oakland
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