Two unexpected personalities are struggling in a fight to keep their marijuana business up and running. Two women who dress like nuns who call themselves "Sisters of the Valley" are living of a business that produces a variety of salves and tonics from cannabis extracts. The nuns believe that their products and concoctions have healing abilities that cure different kinds of ailments.
The sisters grow their own medical cannabis crops and use them as base ingredient for salves and tonics which they sell. But due to a marijuana cultivation ban in Merced City, ABC news reports that the Sisters of the Valley will have to close their shop.
"It's frustrating to me because there are all of these people with negative attitudes about something that is truly God's gift," said Sister Darcey.
The CBD or cannabibiol based products are not intended to get a user high but is instead used by cancer patients and people with other ailments as a remedy. "It's very high in demand from cancer patients right now," says Sister of the Valley Kate, "and we make a salve that's a multi-purpose salve, but we found out it cures migraines, hangovers, earaches, tooth aches and diaper rash."
The sisters are not actual religious nuns but they believe that making and selling these CBD-based products as a "life-design to help people" which leads them to believe that the business is a spiritual order.
"We spend no time on bended knee, but when we make our medicine it's a prayerful environment it's a prayerful time."
Sister Kate along with her apprentice sister Darcey assures the media that the cannabis that they grow does not contain THC which causes the user to get high.
The sisters are determined to defend their cause and will be appearing before the Merced City Council to convince the court to spare their business from the marijuana cultivation ban. "Embrace, regulate and tax, that's all we want them to do," said Sister Kate.
