Santo Daime can have their tea
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Another important case won for ayahuasca drinkers:
On Wednesday a federal judge in Oregon ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) allows followers of the Brazil-based Santo Daime sect to consume ayahuasca, a psychedelic tea containing the ordinarily illegal drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), as part of their rituals. Guided by the Supreme Court's unanimous 2006 ruling in "a very similar case" involving Uniao do Vegetal, another Brazilian religious group that also consumes ayahuasca, U.S. District Court Judge Owen Panner concluded that RFRA "requires that plaintiffs be allowed to import and drink Daime tea for their religious ceremonies, subject to reasonable restrictions." The church already had convinced the Oregon Board of Pharmacy to exempt it from state DMT restrictions.
It would be interesting to see if one could get away with just claiming to be a 1-person offshoot of Santo Daime, and that everybody is invited to come drink at one's congregation, all with less dogmatic strings attached.
[Thanks Morrison]
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Please let me know soon I REALLY want to go to the coming concentration! The daime church in Amsterdam is legal so we do all the beautiful works there... ijeshaflower@yahoo.com Luz e amor
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2. The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
3. There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Therefore laws that criminalize safe and natural psychoactives such as Marijuana, DMT, Mescaline, Salvia divinorum, Psilocybin, etc should all be repealed and reasonable forms of regulation should be put in place to help ensure safe use by adults. The whole idea that humans have the right to declare nature illegal is just idiotic in the first place.
Probably not. If you read the SCOTUS decision on the UdV (it's on-line), you will see that the ruling was fairly narrow and addressed a point of law: importantly, the use of Ayahuasca is [i]not[/i] considered constitutionally protected (don't take it out on me guys, I'm just the messenger) and its status as a schedule 1 substance was reaffirmed. The ruling concerned whether or not the DoJ could refuse to provide the UdV an exemption to the CSA under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The courts said no, but the reasoning probably wouldn't apply to you. I'm not a lawyer, but I actually found reading the decision interesting and enlightening. I would encourage anyone who is interested in these things to consider reading it too.
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