Government,
Civil Rights
Nov. 29, 2022
Oakland cannabis-using church sues over police raid
The church said the police violated the city council’s policy that enforcing anti-cannabis laws should be law enforcement’s lowest priority.
A church in Oakland accused the city’s police department of violating the First Amendment by seizing its supply of cannabis and psilocybin during a sting operation in 2020. The church said the police violated the city council’s policy that enforcing anti-cannabis laws should be law enforcement’s lowest priority.
According to an amended complaint filed Monday by Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants — the Oakland-based assembly for the Chur...
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