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"You can heal sicknesses with natural herbal remedies without having to go through intermediaries like go to a real doctor and get permission. These are our bodies, those are our gardens" she says, cradling a shofar and puffing on a joint. "Police have no role in either because it's really a matter for us as individuals: 'Do I want to heal my body with cannabis medicine rather than expensive and ineffective drugs?'"

Armstrong, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, is the deaconess of The Healing Church in Rhode Island. The Healing Church hinges its beliefs on Exodus 30:23's reference to a botanical medicine which they believe is cannabis oil. You don't need "single payer, Trumpcare, or Obamacare" when you've got "cannabis care," she says.

"Ever since I got a medical cannabis card in 2009, my healthcare went from thousands of dollars a month to zero. I used to take prednisone, albuterol—I used to weigh 265 pounds. I was not a pretty sight, and when I started eating cannabis, I lost weight. I got healthier," she says. "We should rally for the tree of life and for the freedom of religion that they promised because cannabis is the sacrament in the Bible." Along with her weight loss and improved health, she says weed helped her teenage son's depression.

He was in high school and he tried all of those [prescription] drugs, and they were killing him, and he wanted medical cannabis but he couldn't get it for depression. But I could get it for something so I got it and made him a caregiver," she says. "He went from not even being able to get out of bed to straight As, captain of the football team. Then he got a full scholarship to Worcester Polytech, and when he went up there they didn't have medical cannabis in Massachusetts yet, so he got kicked out for using his medicine—zero tolerance, all this nonsense. So, he came home, got his act together, and right now he's deciding if he wants to go, full scholarship, to Brown or Johns Hopkins. He applied to them saying, 'I grow cannabis. It heals cancer. I've seen it and I want to go to medical school to integrate that.'"

Armstrong spoke at a Trump rally in Pittsburgh about cannabis and veterans with PTSD. She said that she was able to calm both sides, the Trump supporters and Trump protesters who were at each other's throats, by smoking them all up.

"There was an angry crowd with weapons, and we smoked with the crowd and they all turned peaceful" she says. "We should work together for issues. We're too divided." She came to the Harrisburg rally to keep the peace with pot, but she is not pro-Trump. She is pro-Healing Church and pro-Anne Armstrong.

"I wrote myself in for president and I also ran for governor of Rhode Island two years ago under the Rhode Island Compassion Party for the healing of the nation," she says and then gets less benevolent. "Looking behind the scenes there was a lot of disgusting stuff getting covered up involving vulnerable children."

She mentions James Alefantis, the owner of Comet Ping Pong and specifically, a key piece of Pizzagate "evidence"—a photo on Alefantis' Instagram of a little girl with her hands masking-taped to a Comet table with the caption, "New seating area/ procedure for our youngest guests? Hilar."

"Seems to me that it’s more likely than not given the evidence from James Alefantis' Instagram account. That's disgusting," she says. "How can James Alefantis go on Fox News and say that little girl with her hands duct taped to the table was his god daughter? Where is she? Where is her parents? Do they give duct tape out at pizza restaurants to entertain the children? I don't think that's it’s centered in one place like that. I think [Comet Ping Pong] is sort of a false flaggy thing, but where there's smoke there's fire, and there's a lot of smoke. I think if they shut that down and then Trump quits and Pence quits and they put me in charge, we'll all be very happy."

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