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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...