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Michael Baldasaro
Michael A. James Baldasaro is a political and religious figure in Hamilton, Ontario. He presides over a religious sect known as the Church of the Universe. Baldasaro has received significant media coverage over his lifetime for his advocacy on behalf of marijuana legalization, as well as his status as a perennial candidates in numerous Hamilton-area elections.
==The Church of the Universe==
Baldasaro is a member of the Church of the Universe, where he is commonly known as Brother Michael. The Church has been in existence since 1969, when it was founded by the late Walter Tucker,〔(Nolan, Daniel. "Pot advocate Walter Tucker dies at 79" ''The Hamilton Spectator'', April 27, 2012 )〕 and Baldasaro remains active in its operations.〔(Loehndorf, Daniel. "The Canadian Inquisition: History and Beliefs of the Church of the Universe," ''Cannabis Culture Magazine'', Issue 9, Summer 1997. )〕 Its members use marijuana as a sacrament and previously operated from the Church Headquarters, an abandoned rock quarry near Puslinch, Ontario.
The quarry was named 'Clearwater Abbey', which church members called 'a beautiful oasis' where they could practice naturism and cultivate marijuana.〔(Loehndorf, 1997. )〕 In 2004, after selling small amounts of marijuana on multiple occasions to an undercover police officer at their Barton Street, Hamilton residence, Baldasaro and Tucker were arrested and charged with trafficking. In 2007, they pleaded not guilty to the charges but after a lengthy trial, a jury found them both guilty.〔(Brown, Barbara. "Ministers guilty of trafficking 'sacrament'," ''The Hamilton Spectator'', November 30, 2007, Local News (A5) )〕 At their sentencing hearing in April 2008, Baldasaro, who had 12 previous trafficking convictions, was sentenced to a two year penitentiary term while Tucker was sentenced to a one year reformatory term. The Crown also applied to the court to have the property from which they distributed marijuana and their Church forfeited to the federal government as an offence-related property, and the Crown's application was granted.〔(Clairmont, Susan. "The pot circus comes to the courthouse," ''The Hamilton Spectator'', January 25, 2008, Local News (A2) )〕〔(Brown, Barbara. "Judge jails pot priests, seizes their church," ''The Hamilton Spectator'', April 25, 2008, Local News (A3) )〕
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