OK
So now if I decide to start my own "church" and decide that one of the rituals is smoking dope or shooting crank I would be legal.
If I get busted I complain of religious/racial discrimination.
Right???
If I get busted I complain of religious/racial discrimination.
Right???
Wrong - these people are "grandfathered in" because their established religious use of DMT predates the laws and treaties against it. NO psychotropic drugs (except perhaps, cannabis) were illegal before the '60s.
Can I join? Where do I sign up?
I realize this reply is rather late - I just found this thread while searching for something else on the SCOTUS...
But - you are exactly correct - with this ruling, I cannot see how you could be prosecuted as long as your drug use was restricted to religious ceremonies.
Of course, you had better not call your new religion anything "Christian" sounding - or the newly found freedom won't apply to you.