Hamilton Priests of pot lose their church - "We lost our church and university all over $70 worth of pot"

Michael Baldasaro and Walter Tucker are closing up the Church of the Universe.

The organ has to go. Baldasaro's bed has to go. The books in the library have to go.

This weekend, Baldasaro, 59, and Tucker, 75, will close the book on their "church" on Barton Street East that was seized by the Crown last year and sold as a forfeited asset.

"We lost our church and university all over $70 worth of pot," Baldasaro said yesterday.

"The building is already sold, but the judge said ... we could go in April 25 to 29 and clean out all our stuff. But we have nowhere to put everything."