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Feb 21, 2006 · Court says practice is protected by the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act. A unanimous Supreme Court ruled today that the adherents of a small religious group can continue, for now at least, to import and use an illegal drug in their worship services.
- Benjamin Wormald
What is the Church's judgment on illegal drug use? Catholic morality firmly rejects whatever use of illegal drugs. In fact John Paul II has referred to pushers as "merchants of death" and warns potential drug users against using substances that offer the illusion of liberty and false promises of happiness.
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May 12, 2024 · Two churches, in New Mexico and Oregon, sued the Drug Enforcement Administration in the 2000s, winning the right to import and serve ayahuasca, a psychoactive Amazonian brew.
Dec 13, 2022 · For example, Rastafarians, Hindus, and Sufi Muslims use marijuana for religious purposes, while members of the Native American Church use peyote (which contains the psychedelic drug mescaline). Does that give us some reason to legalize these drugs?
But religiously motivated conduct is not - when it violates civil law. Thus, in the Supreme Court's opinion in Employment Div. v. Smith, Native American Church members, who used peyote, a hallucinogen, in their religious ceremonies, were held subject to the state and federal drug laws.
Globally, including in the United States, indigenous peoples have been continually utilizing plant medicines, including ayahuasca and peyote, as part of community‐ based healing, tradition,...
Apr 16, 2020 · The church members’ peyote use violated state drug laws: criminal laws that generally prohibited the use of certain drugs and were “not specifically directed at their religious practice.”
