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"registry_id": "vr.tr.cannabis-and-religion", "name": "cannabis and religion", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, compare and assess claims about cannabis in religious life while preserving differences among communities, practices, interpretations and evidence.", "definition": "Cannabis and religion is the study and practice of relationships between cannabis and religious life, including ritual consumption, sacred meanings, moral prohibitions, and disputes over legitimate use.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the relationship between cannabis and religious meaning, practice and authority, including religious rejection of cannabis and disputed claims of sacred use; it does not treat that relationship as a single religion or a universally accepted practice.", "in_scope": [ "Community-specific definitions of sacred, permitted, restricted and prohibited cannabis use", "Ritual practices and religious interpretations involving cannabis, its preparations or its representations", "Textual, material, historical and participant evidence for claims linking cannabis with religion", "Disagreement over religious authority, authenticity and legitimate participation", "Interactions between religious cannabis claims, community rules and external institutions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Cannabis botany, cultivation and chemical composition except where needed to identify a religiously relevant material", "Clinical assessment, treatment and general health effects of cannabis", "Recreational consumption without an evidenced religious connection", "Complete models of the religions, movements or communities concerned", "General cannabis markets, criminal law and drug policy beyond their effects on a specified religious practice" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An instance must identify an explicit or evidenced religious connection; cannabis consumption alone does not qualify.", "The model records whose interpretation establishes the connection and whether practitioners, authorities or researchers contest it.", "Religious prohibition, abstention and symbolic reference qualify even when nobody consumes cannabis.", "Claims about ancient plant names or residues remain distinct from demonstrated cannabis identification and demonstrated religious use.", "A claim concerns a specified community, setting and period rather than automatically applying to an entire religious tradition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Religious referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community, movement, lineage, institution or individual interpreter", "why_it_matters": "Locates the claim without making one position representative of an entire religion." }, { "name": "Relationship to cannabis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sacred use; conditional permission; prohibition; abstention; symbolic reference; disputed association; other specified relationship", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the topic from being reduced to religious consumption." }, { "name": "Material and preparation identification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Identified; provisionally identified; disputed; unspecified, with plant part and preparation where known", "why_it_matters": "Different preparations or ambiguous plant identifications can change the meaning and credibility of a claim." }, { "name": "Religious function", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally attributed sacramental, devotional, ascetic, healing, communal, symbolic or other function", "why_it_matters": "Records participants' religious explanations without assuming a universal purpose." }, { "name": "Authority and acceptance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claim linked to endorsing and dissenting actors, their authority basis and the constituency concerned", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes personal interpretation, local convention and institutional teaching." }, { "name": "Evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Directly documented; indirectly supported; 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identify where cannabis identification or religious attribution remains uncertain.", "Assess whether a proposed description or participation request fits documented community rules.", "Flag unsupported claims of ancient continuity, universal acceptance or legal permission." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe religious uses and prohibitions of cannabis from scholarly sources.", "Report the legal status of cannabis in a stated jurisdiction." ], "must_not": [ "Help a person obtain, grow or use cannabis where it is unlawful.", "Advise consumption to anyone, including in ritual settings.", "Mock or misrepresent religious practices involving or prohibiting cannabis.", "Present religious use as a legal defence where courts have not accepted it." ], "requires_human": [ "Legal decisions about religious exemptions." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Religious freedom intersects with drug laws, and minority religions have been criminalized.", "Health risks matter for young and vulnerable people." ], "affected_parties": [ "Religious communities", "Young people", "People prosecuted under drug laws" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the topic; communities hold their own practices.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "Appears in rituals, festivals and texts rather than as a single visible thing." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Health harms, especially for young people.", "Legal penalties for users in prohibiting jurisdictions." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, United Nations." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Relationships between cannabis and religion are examined in religious studies, anthropology, history and community discussions.", "The topic supports comparison of ritual practices, sacred meanings and prohibitions while preserving differences within and between traditions.", "It also arises in debates about religious freedom, public policy and the interpretation of historical evidence." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q8287454: cannabis and religion", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8287454", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Cannabis and religion", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_and_religion", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "religious-meaning-and-boundaries", "name": "Religious meaning and boundaries", "description": "Defines what connects cannabis to religion in each claimed instance.", "rationale": "Cannabis use, spiritual language and religious membership do not independently establish a religious cannabis practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-sacred-status", "name": "Attributed sacred status", "description": "Captures the religious significance attributed to cannabis and the actors making that attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-religious-meaning", "name": "Situated religious meaning", "description": "Record whether cannabis is treated as sacred, spiritually useful, religiously irrelevant or religiously objectionable, using the relevant community's terms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What religious meaning is attributed to cannabis, and who articulates it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "situated-religious-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this attribution from a personal preference or a commercial claim of spirituality?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-religious-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-nonuse-and-symbolism", "name": "Use, nonuse and symbolism", "description": "Separates consumption from other religious relationships with cannabis.", "findings": [ { "id": "relationship-without-assumed-consumption", "name": "Relationship without assumed consumption", "description": "Represent consumption, offerings, representations, prohibition and abstention as distinct possible relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the instance involve consuming cannabis, handling it, representing it or rejecting its use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "relationship-without-assumed-consumption-q01" }, { "text": "What makes abstention or prohibition specifically religious in this instance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "relationship-without-assumed-consumption-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "materials-and-ritual-practice", "name": "Materials and ritual practice", "description": "Identifies the cannabis material and its place in a documented religious activity.", "rationale": "A plant name or report of consumption cannot by itself establish what material was involved or how it functioned religiously.", "layers": [ { "id": "cannabis-identification", "name": "Cannabis identification", "description": "Records material identity without equating ambiguous names or preparations.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-material-and-preparation", "name": "Identified material and preparation", "description": "Record the reported plant part, preparation and local terminology, together with confidence that the material is cannabis.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material or preparation is named, and what evidence identifies it as cannabis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-material-and-preparation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the religious interpretation distinguish plant parts or preparations, and on what basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "identified-material-and-preparation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-position-and-function", "name": "Ritual position and function", "description": "Places cannabis within an activity rather than treating its presence as sufficient evidence of ritual purpose.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-ritual-role", "name": "Documented ritual role", "description": "Record the occasion, participants, attributed function and whether cannabis is required, optional or incidental.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does cannabis enter the activity, and what religious function do participants attribute to it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "documented-ritual-role-q01" }, { "text": "Can the activity retain its religious meaning when cannabis is absent or a participant abstains?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-ritual-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-historical-claims", "name": "Evidence and historical claims", "description": "Evaluates how religious cannabis associations are established and how far they can be extended.", "rationale": "Plant identification, religious interpretation and historical continuity are separate claims requiring separate support.", "layers": [ { "id": "texts-objects-and-testimony", "name": "Texts, objects and testimony", "description": "Distinguishes what different forms of evidence directly establish.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-specific-evidence", "name": "Claim-specific evidence", "description": "Link each claim to an examined text, material analysis, observation or testimony and record its interpretive limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which examined evidence supports cannabis identification, and which supports the religious interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-specific-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What alternative translation, material identification or contextual explanation remains plausible?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claim-specific-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-reconstruction", "name": "Continuity and reconstruction", "description": "Assesses relationships between historical attestations and later religious claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-continuity-claim", "name": "Bounded continuity claim", "description": "Distinguish documented transmission from revival, reconstruction and retrospective attribution without treating recent origin as evidence against religious meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence connects the claimed earlier cannabis practice to the later community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-continuity-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which gaps prevent describing the practice as continuously transmitted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-continuity-claim-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-internal-disagreement", "name": "Authority and internal disagreement", "description": "Represents competing religious positions and who may speak for them.", "rationale": "Permission, sacred status and prohibition may differ among actors who identify with the same tradition.", "layers": [ { "id": "sources-of-religious-authority", "name": "Sources of religious authority", "description": "Identifies how a cannabis-related teaching gains authority within a constituency.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-for-cannabis-position", "name": "Authority for a cannabis position", "description": "Record whether a position invokes scripture, interpretation, lineage, institutional decision, customary practice or personal experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "What authority is invoked to permit, require or reject cannabis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-for-cannabis-position-q01" }, { "text": "For which people and settings is that authority recognised?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-for-cannabis-position-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested-permission-and-authenticity", "name": "Contested permission and authenticity", "description": "Preserves disagreement about legitimate religious cannabis practice.", "findings": [ { "id": "mapped-religious-disagreement", "name": "Mapped religious disagreement", "description": "Record competing positions, their reasons and the scope of each without resolving authenticity by assumption.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who disputes the practice, and does the dispute concern intoxication, interpretation, conduct, identity or another issue?", "kind": "definition", "id": "mapped-religious-disagreement-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent describe the practice without presenting a contested position as the whole tradition's teaching?", "kind": "action", "id": "mapped-religious-disagreement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-public-recognition", "name": "Participation and public recognition", "description": "Connects religious cannabis claims to participation rules and external recognition.", "rationale": "Religious significance alone does not establish consent, community permission or legal authorisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-participation-conditions", "name": "Community participation conditions", "description": "Records how a community governs participation, abstention and access to cannabis-related practices.", "findings": [ { "id": "participation-and-abstention-rules", "name": "Participation and abstention rules", "description": "Identify documented eligibility, consent expectations, alternatives and restrictions relevant to a proposed activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may participate, and what rules govern voluntary abstention or participation without consumption?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "participation-and-abstention-rules-q01" }, { "text": "What community permission or clarification is needed before arranging, documenting or joining the activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "participation-and-abstention-rules-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-recognition-and-constraints", "name": "External recognition and constraints", "description": "Separates a community's religious claim from its treatment by courts, regulators and other institutions.", "findings": [ { "id": "religious-claim-and-recognised-permission", "name": "Religious claim and recognised permission", "description": "Record any claimed accommodation alongside its jurisdiction, date, decision-maker and limits; leave legal conclusions to the relevant legal model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is external recognition merely requested or supported by an applicable, dated decision?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "religious-claim-and-recognised-permission-q01" }, { "text": "What current jurisdiction-specific verification is needed before treating the religious claim as permission for a proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "religious-claim-and-recognised-permission-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is a recall-based overview, not a source-verified account.", "Ancient textual references and archaeological claims require checking the identification of cannabis and the evidence for specifically religious use separately.", "Community-specific teachings, participation rates, and current legal accommodations require verification; none should be inferred from the broad examples here." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Ritual or sacramental consumption", "Devotional associations with deities or sacred narratives", "Religious prohibitions and restrictions on intoxication", "Ascetic and mystical uses", "Religious identity and communal practices involving cannabis", "Disputes over religious accommodation of cannabis use" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Some Rastafari communities use ganja in religious reasoning gatherings and associate it with spiritual reflection.", "Some Hindu communities consume bhang in particular festival and devotional settings, including traditions associated with Shiva.", "Religious communities interpret teachings about intoxication, self-control, and spiritual discipline when evaluating cannabis use.", "Claims of sacramental use appear in disputes about religious freedom and drug control." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating practices of particular communities as requirements shared by an entire religion.", "Presenting disputed ancient plant identifications as established evidence of cannabis use.", "Confusing ritual, medicinal, and recreational motives when they overlap.", "Assuming sacred status eliminates risks of impairment or problematic use.", "Assuming a religious justification automatically creates a legal exemption." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In South Asia, cannabis-related practices differ across Hindu communities, regions, festivals, and ascetic traditions.", "In Jamaica and the wider Rastafari diaspora, the religious importance and use of ganja vary among communities and individuals.", "Across Muslim societies, mainstream objections to intoxication coexist historically with cannabis use in some mystical and popular settings; these practices have been contested." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Entheogens", "difference": "Entheogens are substances used or understood as facilitating sacred experience; cannabis and religion also includes prohibition, abstention, and nonconsumptive symbolism." }, { "name": "Cannabis culture", "difference": "Cannabis culture includes secular identities and customs; this topic requires a relationship to religious beliefs, institutions, or practices." }, { "name": "Rastafari", "difference": "Rastafari is a religious movement; cannabis and religion is a cross-tradition topic that includes some Rastafari practices." }, { "name": "Religion and drugs", "difference": "Religion and drugs covers many substances; this topic is restricted to cannabis." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cannabis and religion this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which communities and periods have sufficiently documented cannabis relationships to support representative coverage, including prohibition and abstention?", "Which historical plant names and material traces can be securely identified as cannabis, and which religious interpretations remain disputed?", "Where is transmission between historical and contemporary practices documented, and where is continuity asserted or reconstructed?", "How do participants and recognised authorities differ over sacred use, intoxication, preparation and legitimate participation within each community?", "Which claims of external accommodation remain applicable to the precise community, activity and jurisdiction being modelled?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }