Posted on 12/01/2004 4:17:31 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
THE Bush administration has won a US Supreme Court stay that blocks a New Mexico church from using hallucinogenic tea that the government contends is illegal and potentially dangerous.
The Government has been in a long-running legal fight with the Brazil-based O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal over hoasca tea, brewed from plants found in the Amazon River Basin.
The church won a preliminary injunction in a lower court, and the Supreme Court was asked to intervene.
Justice Stephen Breyer, acting on behalf of the full court, granted a temporary stay to give both sides time to file more 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.
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"Stairway to heaven" New Age style.
Go ask Alice....I think she'll know....
Then, they came and took all the tea drinkers but I did nothing because I drink beer...
Over hoasca tea? Could they mean ayahuasca tea?
They've probably been drinking the stuff. They could mean ANYTHING!
Damn, they are going to have to give up on strict creationist interpretations of the Bible now... heh
Does this mean we can no longer use peyote in our Sunday services?
Ah,yes,the "Vision Vine".I don't think even William Burroughs could handle this stuff.
This must be the real kool-aid, I knew there had to be a rational reason for all the lefts irrational actions. Now I know.
Stealing! How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives sermons at church? Captain what's-his-name? -- Homer Simpson
Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else -- and it hasn't -- it's that girls should stick to girl's sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such. -- Homer Simpson
You know, the one with all the well-meaning rules that don't work in real life -- uh, Christianity. -- Homer Simpson, telling what religion the family belongs to
You're everywhere. You're omnivorous. -- Homer Simpson, Homer's attitude to God
No offence Apu, but when they were handing out religions, you musta been out taking a whizz. -- Homer Simpson, to store proprietor and Hindu, Apu Nahaasapeemapetilon
And one of my favorites...
Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene." -- Homer Simpson
LOL. Love it.
And so again International Treaty obligations dictate
law in the United States, this is why pot will never be
legalized.
"I'm not not licking toads" Homer J Simpson
"God is powerful, but insecure. Like Barbra Streisand before James Brolin." -Homer
Homer: OH SAVE ME JEBUS!!!!!!
Sting must be bumming out ... no more trippin' out in churches ...
Dimethyl Tryptamine. Never done it. So it's from a weed in a swamp in Brasil. 30 years ago all I had was purple haze during a Humble Pie concert at the Fillmore East. All I learned is to avoid that. Nothing mind-expanding or remarkable at all.
Bloody stupid.
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