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North Dakota bishops call for rejection of recreational cannabis measure on state ballot

September 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA).
The bishops of North Dakota condemned a state ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in a Tuesday statement, citin… […]

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Oregon re-criminalizes hard drugs after ‘overdose rates skyrocketed’

April 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

A person holds a foil while smoking following the decriminalization of all drugs, including fentanyl and meth, in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 25, 2024. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, … […]

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Catholic Church highlights concerns regarding Germany’s cannabis legalization

April 2, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A smoker in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo from 2018.) / Credit: Tobias Tullius / Unsplash (CC0))

CNA Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA).
While Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday, April 1, the debate over the contentious… […]

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Denver archbishop: Why I wrote a pastoral letter on marijuana

December 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 1, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
In a Nov. 28  interview with “What We Need Now,” the Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver explained what motivated h… […]

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Bishops urge passage of bill that would give same sentences to crack and powder cocaine offenders

August 11, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

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Washington D.C., Aug 11, 2022 / 16:50 pm (CNA).
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops pressed the U.S. Senate to make the penalty for distributing crack cocaine the same as that imposed on those caug… […]

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Over at GetReligion, Terry Mattingly takes a look at the New York Times’ report on Archbishop Charles Chaput’s replacing Cardinal Justin Rigali as the head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Mattingly observes that rather than […]

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