Cathedrals are worried that planned new laws banning so-called legal highs could make it a crime to use incense in services.
And they are lobbying the Government to change the legislation to ensure priests and can use incense without risk of arrest.
The plea has come from the Association of English Cathedrals, which represents cathedrals across the country including Durham and Newcastle.
This looks like an Onion article! I must admit that I have no personal experience with illegal drugs, but if what happens to me when I am subjected to incense is a euphoric high, I clearly made the right decision in my teens and 20’s to stay away from drugs!
The only experience I have had from incense is a dryness at the back of the throat and an awareness of asphyxiation. In Anglican churches mind you as the Catholics use it decorously, but the Anglicans tend to welly it with the thuribles. Perhaps they think the billowing clouds of smoke will kill the death watch beetles in the rafters or something. It certainly kills me.
#2–Precisely!