Kinda strange thread. The point about religion is not the "lord" said this and that. I mean, you write that stuff down as praise, 2000 years ago and then after you are dead they make a religion out of what you said. You say those things within your current cultural reference that you had no choice but to be immersed in.
No one seems to realize we are mindless slaves to this social reference. It was pitilessly imprinted before we could talk and before we had any sense of self. Therefore for 99.9999whatever% of folks, this reference, is Self. No attention is ever turned away from the nattermind that just wants stuff and never stops talking inside. There is more Self beyond that. But how to find it? Some guy says something about how to do that and we worship the story about it. Kill people about it.
So, to me all religions have this problem. Mormons? Just go back to the story of Joseph Smith. Very influenced by divination. Specifically, crystal reading in the bottom of a felt hat. It's was the current Victorian parlor trick. Seance stuff. Then he claimed he found tablet, then he lost the gold tablets. Then he wrote it down. Supposedly dictating from beyond a curtain, from the crystal in the hat. By then, he is fighting Christians in Missouri and got his brother killed. They were able to get Brigham Young crowned the Federal Manager of Utah Territory. The rest is history.
The book of Mormon, Angel card = Maroni. The angel card for Islam is David. Christianity plays the Michael card.
Hindu being very ancient have dozens of angel cards. Sikh became a religion in the 1500s because of the killing (torture/torment) of their Gurus. Now it's just a religion. Angel card = The !0 Gurus.
Really I could go on and on, but every religion is like this, started that way, and there are several new ones in progress, right now.
But, the point of the thread is can there be religious freedom to smoke the ganga like there is for peyote in the Native American "church?" Yes, you sign up for the boi Shiva religion that used cannabis as a sacrament and convenience the govt to sanction it. But, you will be up against the Hindu League that doesn't want the association. They have influence, we don't.
Besides the medical aspects are real and important. Religions would fight to the death over nothing. Not a cannabis thing.