From the time of Moses, the Hebrews, (and later the Jews and Christians), have used the drug alcohol in their most sacred services. For centuries, Native Americans have used Tobacco and Peyote to enhance their spiritual quest for visions.
Millennia earlier, Shiva, a Hindu God, taught the use of Marijuana for increased spiritual awareness. Today, the followers of Shiva are forbidden to practice what to them is a personal and religious rite.
How easily we support laws that take religious freedoms from others whose methods we may not understand. How easily we forget our inspired Constitution.
I find great spiritual strength through fasting and prayer. Particularly, I remember the spiritual ecstasy I felt hiking a mountain after a two-day fast. I don't use Marijuana or other drugs in my meditations. I am grateful for my civil rights to my spiritual techniques without fear of being arrested. I respect the right of others to use different methods, even drugs.
Joseph Smith, Mayor of Nauvoo, and 1844 candidate for President, said, "We claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege. Let them worship how, where, or what they may." For me, that includes the rite of Marijuana.
With your support, I will work to restore the right of the people to their rite of Marijuana. Whatever you think of my chance in the election, your vote won't be wasted. Every vote for Ken Larsen will be counted 100% as one more clear voice for personal liberties.
I request your assistance in the open primary election for Mayor of Salt Lake City on October 3, 1995, and in the final election on November 7, 1995. Please register on time and take your friends to the polls.
If you wish to offer contributions, suggestions, contributions, comments, contributions or money, feel free to call me at 533-8658 or write Ken Larsen for Mayor, 856 East, 100 South #2, SLC, Utah, 84102. Thank You.
P.S. The Utah Constitution says:
"No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious
worship."
Period! When I am elected Mayor, there will be only two ways the lawmakers can infringe the right of the people to practice personal religious rites -- they can amend the Constitution or they can pass an unconstitutional law over my dead body.
Ken Larsen,
candidate for Mayor of Salt Lake City