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Newsbrief:
Supreme
Court
Puts
Hold
on
Religious
Ayahuasca
Use
12/3/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/365
/udv.shtml
Two weeks ago, the New Mexico-based
US branch of the Brazilian church Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do
Vegetal (UDV, or Union of the Vegetable) won in federal appeals court the
right to use the Amazonian hallucinogen ayahuasca in its religious rites
(https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/363/udv.shtml).
On Wednesday, the Bush administration was back in court on the case, seeking
and winning a stay from the Supreme Court blocking the church from using
its sacrament until they have heard the case.
The 10th US Circuit Court
of Appeals in Denver had ruled that the church would probably win its case,
and granted a temporary injunction barring the government from suppressing
its ayahuasca rituals in the meantime, but Supreme Court Justice Stephen
Breyer granted the government a temporary stay to give both sides more
time to file arguments with the court.
"Compliance with the injunction
would force the United States to go into violation of an international
treaty designed to prevent drug trafficking worldwide, which could have
both short- and long-term foreign relations costs and could impair the
policing of transnational drug trafficking involving the most dangerous
controlled substances," acting Solicitor General Paul Clement wrote in
a court filing.
The case arose when federal
agents raided the Santa Fe, New Mexico, offices of the church's US branch
in 1999, seizing 30 gallons of ayahuasca tea. Unfortunately for the
feds, the leader of the US branch, Jeffrey Bronfman, is an extremely well-heeled
heir to the Seagram's whiskey fortune. Bronfman sued, and so far,
he and the church have won every round.
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