Oklahoma Christians win marijuana fight after foreign gangs 'invaded': 'Don't California our Oklahoma'

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Oklahoma Christians win marijuana fight after foreign gangs 'invaded': 'Don't California our Oklahoma'
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All 77 counties in Oklahoma voted against legalizing marijuana which several people on the ground told Fox News Digital is due to the strong faith community in the state.

soundly defeated a measure to legalize marijuana in the state this week, a result officials said came from the efforts of a faith community highly motivated to reject the growing acceptance of the drug in society.

Abner, whose group represents six Christian denominations including Baptists, Catholics, and Nazarenes, said that the widest margin he had seen from pollsters before the vote was 3% and that "you can’t quantify" the impact the faith community has in the state. "A lot of people in our faith community are like no, this is not helping our families, it's making it worse."

in the state, but also a condemnation on how the 2018 vote to legalize medical marijuana has had led to many negative consequences, including illegal grow operations, crime associated with those illegal operations, water shortages and trafficking. "As a family of churches, our biggest regrets are the occasions when we went along with societal movements that were popular but wrong, and so we are all the more committed, when facing similar pressures today, to standing firm on the side of truth and human flourishing," Barber said.

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