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		<title>Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 &#8212; A unanimous Supreme Court decision on Tuesday gave a small religious sect the right to keep importing a hallucinogenic tea, central to its ritual observance, that the government wants to ban as a controlled substance under federal narcotics law.
With an opinion by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the decision was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Court sides with church in hallucinogenic tea dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.
Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church&#8217;s religious practice. Federal drug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On docket: religious freedom vs. drug laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court takes up a case involving a New Mexico sect that could be important for other minority religions.
WASHINGTON – In a case with potential important significance for minority religious groups in America, the US Supreme Court this week takes up a clash between the nation&#8217;s drug laws and a statute protecting religious liberty.
At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Important Is Small Church&#8217;s Ritual?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question is, when is a &#8220;compelling governmental interest&#8221; really, truly, a compelling governmental interest? At some point in its October term, the Supreme Court will take one more look at that abiding question.
This time around, the question goes to the First Amendment rights of a handful of New Mexico citizens who count themselves members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to Decide Whether Church Can Import Drug</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court accepted a Bush administration request to rule on a clash between religious freedom and drug-control law yesterday, announcing that it will review a lower court&#8217;s ruling that blocked enforcement of a federal ban on a church&#8217;s importation of hallucinogens.
The court said it will hear the government&#8217;s appeal of a 2002 injunction issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High court agrees to review hallucinogenic tea case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a church in New Mexico can continue using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services.
At issue is whether use of the tea, which contains a drug banned under the federal Controlled Substances Act, is protected under freedom of religion laws. The Bush administration contends the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Court Allows N.M. Church to Use Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that a New Mexico church has the right to use a hallucinogenic tea in its services, rejecting a government argument that the tea is illegal and potentially dangerous.
The ruling brings to a close a long-running legal fight between federal officials and the Brazil-based O Centro Espirita [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Trip!: Supreme Court Halts Hallucinogenic Tea Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration on Wednesday won a 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Federal Appeals Court Says A Religious Group Can Import Illegal Drugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Freedom Restoration Act Shows Its True Colors
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently sat en banc &#8211; that is, in a larger-than-usual panel representing the Circuit as a whole &#8211; to address the claim that the federal drug laws do not apply to a particular church.
The party adverse to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Affirms Church Tea OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal court has ruled for the third time that the Santa Fe-based affiliate of a Brazilian religious sect should get back the hallucinogenic tea its practitioners take as a sacrament.
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled 8-5 for the small religious group, O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, or UDV, [...]]]></description>
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