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Beneath each full moon, a group of women in religious clothing surround a fire near a village in central Mexico.
在墨西哥中部的一个村庄，在每个月圆之夜，一群身穿宗教服装的妇女围在火堆旁。
They breathe in deeply from a joint and blow clouds of marijuana smoke out toward the fire.
她们深深地吸了一口大麻烟，然后朝火堆喷出一团大麻烟雾。
Despite their religious clothing, the women are not religious.
尽管她们穿着宗教服装，但她们并不信教。
They are part of an international group founded in 2014 called Sisters of the Valley.
她们是2014年成立的国际组织“山谷修女”的成员。
The group has promised to spread its ideas about the healing powers of the drug marijuana.
该组织承诺传播其关于大麻治愈能力的思想。
The group also launched a successful small business in the United States, where about twenty states have legalized recreational marijuana use.
该组织还在美国成功创办了一家小公司，美国约有20个州已将娱乐性大麻使用合法化。
It sells products made from cannabis, the plant from which marijuana comes.
它出售由大麻制成的产品，大麻就是从这种植物上获取的。
The Sisters of the Valley business made over $500,000 last year.
去年，“山谷修女”赚了50多万美元。
But in Mexico, a drug war has hurt the country, and Christianity is built into society.
但在墨西哥，毒品战争伤害了这个国家，基督教融入了社会。
The group says its image of marijuana-smoking nuns is like an act of rebellion, the women say.
这些修女说，该组织表示，其吸食大麻的修女的形象就像是一种反叛行为。
The sisters often post on social media, mainly Instagram.
“山谷修女”经常在社交媒体（主要是在Instagram上）上发帖。
The pictures show them caring for cannabis crops, leading workshops, and attending cannabis-related events.
照片显示，她们照料大麻作物，领导讲习班，并参加与大麻有关的活动。
Their business makes around $10,000 each year, small compared to their partners in the U.S.
她们每年赚约一万美元，与他们在美国的合作伙伴相比，她们赚得比较少。
The five women are careful to hide possible personal and workplace identifiers in the images they post.
这五名修女在发布的照片中小心翼翼地隐藏了可能的个人身份和工作场所标识。
They do business out of a building with a false storefront.
她们在一栋有假店面的大楼里做生意。
Cannabis production is a legal gray area in Mexico.
在墨西哥，大麻生产是合法的灰色地带。
Much of the activity remains tied to criminal organizations, called cartels.
大部分活动仍然与被称为卡特尔的犯罪组织有关。
The women say they worry that both police and crime groups could threaten them.
这些修女说，她们担心警察和犯罪集团会威胁她们。
On a recent weekend, reporters from Reuters news agency visited.
最近的一个周末，路透社的记者采访了她们。
One of the nuns, who uses the name "Sister Bernardet" online, said "The Sisterhood is in a totally different context here in Mexico – because of how religious the country is and because of the plant's ties to cartels."
其中一名修女在网上使用的名字是“修女伯纳德”，她说：“在墨西哥，修女处于一个完全不同的环境中，因为这个国家的人们非常虔诚，而且这种植物与卡特尔有联系。”
She asked Reuters to not report her real name as she feared attack or punishment if her identity is discovered.
她要求路透社不要报道她的真名，因为她担心如果她的身份被发现，她会受到攻击或惩罚。
In her main job as a homeopathic caregiver, she prescribes marijuana to her patients with cancer, joint pain and sleep problems.
作为一名顺势疗法护理者，她的主要工作是给患有癌症、关节疼痛和睡眠问题的患者开大麻处方。
"We want to take the plant back from the" drug dealers, she said.
她说：“我们想从毒贩手中夺回这种植物”。
The Sisters have borrowed some ideas from the Beguines, a religious movement that existed for a few hundred years starting in the 1100s.
“山谷修女”借鉴了贝居安女修会的一些思想，这是一个从11世纪开始存在了几百年的宗教运动。
The group, made up of single women, devoted itself to spirituality, scholarship and providing aid to the needy.
该组织由单身女性组成，致力于精神、学术和为贫困人口提供援助。
It was not officially connected to any religion.
它与任何宗教都没有正式联系。
The Sisters worldwide say they wear religious clothing called habits to demonstrate uniformity and show respect for the plant.
世界各地的修女们表示，她们穿着习惯上显示统一的宗教服装，表示对这种植物的尊重。
With the help of Alehli Paz, a chemist and marijuana researcher working with the group, the Sisters in Mexico grow a small crop.
在与该组织合作的化学家和大麻研究人员阿列利·帕斯的帮助下，墨西哥的修女栽种了幼小的大麻植株。
They grow the plants in old paint containers and place them in lines between four walls on a rooftop.
她们把大麻种在旧的油漆容器里，然后把它们排成一排，放在屋顶的四面墙之间。
Later, the Sisters move the larger plants to private gardens.
之后，修女们把较大的植株移到私人花园。
Their work is limited to weekends, when they care for the plants and produce cannabis goods.
她们的工作仅限于周末，那时他们会照看植株和生产大麻商品。
The women visit other groups in the expanding cannabis community in Mexico City pushing for full legalization.
这些修女拜访了墨西哥城不断扩大的大麻社区的其他组织，推动大麻完全合法化。
The women also give workshops that touch on everything from how to make products like cannabis infusions to the chemistry behind the plant.
这些修女还举办讲习会，内容涉及如何制造大麻注射剂等产品和大麻植株背后的化学物质等方方面面。
Business possibilities aside, the women argue that the fight against drugs in Latin America has been a failure, leading to violence and mass imprisonment.
撇开商业可能性不谈，这些修女认为，拉丁美洲的禁毒斗争是失败的，其导致了暴力和大规模监禁。
The Sisters of the Valley founder in Mexico calls herself "Sister Camilla" online.
这位墨西哥“山谷修女”的创始人在网上称自己为“卡米拉修女”。
She would not give her real name to Reuters.
她不愿向路透社透露自己的真名。
She said she grew up in a religious family.
她说，她在一个宗教家庭长大。
She left home at 16 partly because of her mother's strong religious ideas, she said.
她说，她16岁离家出走的部分原因是她母亲强烈的宗教观念。
When she started Sisters of the Valley Mexico, their relationship became even more difficult.
当她创办墨西哥“山谷修女”时，她们的关系变得更加困难。
"It was hard for her to accept," she said about her mother. "She had certain ideas, heavily shaped by religion."
“这让她很难接受，”她谈到自己的母亲时说。“她有一些深受宗教影响的想法。”
But today, after long talks about the plant and the legalization movement, her mother helps with the group's operations, she said.
但她说，如今，在对有关大麻植株和合法化运动的话题进行了长时间的讨论之后，她的母亲帮助运营该组织。
I'm John Russell.
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