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How can you tell is a congregation is genuine or not with their faith in God. Well, there are several factors but most important is what kind of fruit does that congregation bear?

I would say that selling pot in the name of God would fall under the false religion category. But that's just me.

HOLLYWOOD - The Rev. Craig X Rubin read aloud a passage from 1 Kings as the sun set and his congregation prepared for the Sabbath.

Flicking a lighter to the lone candle atop the podium, Rubin burned a bud of marijuana on the flame. He puffed it out, walked to each of the eight members sitting in the pews and waved the smoldering cannabis around them.

This, Rubin proclaims, carries the prayers of Temple 420 to God.

“I am willing to preach the Bible and go to jail if it means getting my message out there,” the 41-year-old Panorama City man said. And he knows how strange that sounds.

“I’m a Jewish kid from Beverly Hills who went to UCLA. I could have been a lawyer making $250 an hour like the rest of my friends, or a TV producer. Instead, I’m teaching the Bible, selling weed on Hollywood Boulevard, facing seven years in jail - of course I’m crazy.”

“They were trying to set it up under the guise of a religious right and then be able to sidestep marijuana laws,” Maiberger said. “The deal was for a $100 initiation fee and $100 annual fee, you could buy all the pot you wanted for quote-unquote `religious purpose.’ That’s bull—-.”

Rubin, however, continues to distribute marijuana six days a week to the temple’s members - there are more than 400 who have paid the initiation and annual dues - for a “requested donation” of $60 for an eighth of an ounce.

But it is clear some of Temple 420’s members aren’t interested in the religious services. The sanctuary seats about 40. Some members have never attended.

“For me, it was worth it,” David Donahue, 37, of West Hollywood said of joining the temple. “If I didn’t get it through him, I would get it through one of my friends’ dealers - and I don’t know anyone here.

“Two hundred bucks, to some people, it’s a lot. It’s a lot to me, don’t get me wrong. But we pay for convenience.”

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