The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Supreme Court sides with church in dispute over hallucinogenic tea

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Supreme Court sides with church in dispute over hallucinogenic tea: "The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today 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's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision."