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		<title>Religious Sect, Government Settle Lawsuit regarding hallucinogenic tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25039"><img src="http://rnbpull.99streets.netdna-cdn.com/graphicspics/Hoasca.jpg" alt="Hoasca" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;" title="Hoasca"></a> A Santa Fe congregation that uses a hallucinogenic brew of South American plants as a sacrament thought its battle with the government was over in early 2006.</strong>
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It had won a <a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/13721/high-court-sides-with-church-in-hallucinogenic-tea-dispute">unanimous ruling</a> from the U.S. Supreme Court that year that said federal drug regulators hadn't met their burden under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in trying to restrict importation and use of the tea.
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But it wasn't until last week that the case actually ended.
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious Group Wants Tea Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armed with a favorable decision from a federal appeals court, lawyers for members of a Brazilian religious group in Santa Fe are seeking the return of a hallucinogenic tea used as a sacrament. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, or UDV, has now won legal victories twice &#8212; at the U.S. District Court in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Rules on Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court has decided that a New Mexico church&#8217;s use of hallucinogenic tea is likely to be protected under freedom of religion laws. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against the U.S. attorney general, Drug Enforcement Administration and other government agencies that sought to prohibit use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man faces drug charges over South American jungle vines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press, Oct. 15, 2002 http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/101502/LOCillegaltea.shtml ATLANTA &#8212; A man from Peru faces federal drug charges for importing jungle vines and leaves that he planned to make into tea for a religious ceremony. Alan Thomas Shoemaker said he uses the Peruvian jungle vine ayahuasca and huambisa leaves to make a bitter, rust-colored tea that [...]]]></description>
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