Abortion vs Tripping

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. followers of a small Brazilian-based religion can import and use hallucinogenic tea in their ceremonies, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a case pitting religious freedom against federal drug laws.

The top court in an opinion written by new Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the U.S. government's effort to stop the importation and use of sacramental hoasca tea by the New Mexican branch of the religion called O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal.

The justices upheld a U.S. appeals court ruling that the government must allow the use of the herbal hoasca tea as part of a spiritual practice because of a 1993 religious freedom law.

Members of the religion believe the tea is sacred and that it helps connects them to God. The brewed tea, made from two plants that grow in the Amazon, contains dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a controlled substance banned under federal drug laws.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

is salvia still legal?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, but I seem to be missing the connection to abortion?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

that also gets you high.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

The Supreme Court

― Dan (Hard On Abortion, Soft On Hallucinogens) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

If a woman conceives while tripping, would it be advisable to abort?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

never take LSD before getting an abortion.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought that the thread title was about different ways to end a pregnancy.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

LSD is a vasoconstrictor, so taking it while pregnant could conceivably induce abortion. Also glad this case ended the way it did.

― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was going to throw hot bath/gin/knitting needle into the mix. (xpost)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

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