Legal Opinion
Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União Do Vegetal
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 2006No. 04-1084PublishedCited by 705 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
A religious sect with origins in the Amazon Rainforest receives communion by drinking a sacramental tea, brewed from plants unique to the region, that contains a hallucinogen regulated under the Controlled Substances Act by the Federal Government. The Government concedes that this practice is a sincere exercise of religion, but nonetheless sought to prohibit the small American branch of the sect from engaging in the practice, on the ground that the Controlled Substances Act bars all use of the hallucinogen. The sect sued to block enforcement against it of the ban on the sacramental tea, and…
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