Posted on 12/11/2004 2:38:32 PM PST by KiloLima
The Supreme Court on Friday denied the Justice Department's request to allow it to enforce a ban on religious use of a hallucinogenic substance, hoasca tea, during the pendency of the government's petition challenging a court's decision that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act likely requires a religious exemption from the Controlled Substances Act. A federal judge in New Mexico, relying upon RFRA, has granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the CSA as to a religious group's use of the tea.
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