Catholic leaders have committed themselves to a campaign of lies about cannabis. Instead of lining up with the Establishment and threatening those who choose to use cannabis with impoverishment, the Church should acknowledge the fact that it is among the safest of drugs in common use, far safer than tobacco, alcohol, prescribed medicines, and most over-the-counter medications, e.g. Any substitution of cannabis for other drugs redounds to an improvement in public health. Cannabis reduces the consumption not just of opioid drugs, but many others as well, and this is why entrenched interests pushing more dangerous drugs oppose its legalization. The Catholic Church’s position on cannabis is fundamentally immoral.