The Sisters fashion themselves after a lay religious movement, the Beguines, that dates back to the Middle Ages. The group, made up of single women, devoted itself to spirituality, scholarship and charity, but took no formal vows.
The Sisters globally say they wear habits to project uniformity and respect for the plant, but they also know it catches media attention.
Under the guidance of Alehli Paz, a chemist and marijuana researcher working with the group, the Sisters in Mexico grow a modest crop.
They pot plants in old paint buckets and place them in rows between four unfinished concrete walls on a rooftop.
Once grown, the Sisters move the plants to walled-off private gardens they identified with help from supportive older women in the community.
Their participation is limited to weekends they can steal away from their lives. Powered by a seemingly never-ending stream of joints and packed pipe bowls, the women spend time at the farm pruning plants, producing cannabinoid salves or weighing and storing different strains, labeled and dated, in old glass coffee jars.
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