Supreme Court Upholds Hallucination Among the Religious
To paraphrase Karl Marx, religion is the hallucinogen of the masses. The case in point: The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the use of hallucinogenic tea as a conduit to God.
Members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, a church based in Brazil that blends Christian tenets and South American traditions, believe they can understand God only by drinking hoasca tea twice a month during four-hour ceremonies. (Apparently, it takes a while to establish a divine uplink, which may be attributable to poor celestial broadband penetration and the prevalence of space junk.)
The Supreme Court agrees, noting that "both the Executive and Congress have decreed an exception from the Controlled Substances Act for Native American religious use of peyote." Chief Justice Roberts said that the government had not met its obligation under a federal reglious freedom law to show why the sect's practice should be banned. It seems the Bush administration's "because we say so" is somewhat lacking as a legal argument.
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