O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal v. Ashcroft

The majority affirms a preliminary injunction prohibiting the United States1 from enforcing the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”), 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., thereby placing the United States in violation of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, Feb. 21, 1971 (the “Convention”), 32 U.S.T. 543. Because the majority utilizes the wrong standard in determining whether 0 Centro Espirita Beneficíente Uniao do Vegetal (“UDV”) has made the necessary showing for obtaining a preliminary injunction, and because UDV has not shown that the preliminary injunction factors weigh heavily and…