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Court Allows Church's Hallucinogenic Tea [Excerpts]
 
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously [February 21, 2006] that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.
 
Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.
 
The tea, which contains an illegal drug known as DMT, is considered sacred to members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has a blend of Christian beliefs and South American traditions. Members believe they can understand God only by drinking the tea, which is consumed twice a month at four-hour ceremonies.
 
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/21/D8FTJ9V82.html
 
[TBC: While the use of illicit drugs to contact God is counterproductive to finding the truth, one might also ask why someone would settle for a deity which is only accessible twice a month.]