Posted on 12/12/2004 6:31:17 PM PST by Coleus
My thought is that if you use this tea and you jump right into the essence of schizophrenia without having tried to cope with the experience. Besides, you are expecting hallucinations!
A good experiment would be to find someone willing to be a "heavy user", say one of those guys nailing down 131 marijuana cigarettes a week, and have him drink this tea for a couple of months.
Bet he'd try to come to grips with the visions.
It's use and importation were while not common, at least
legal up until a few years ago, now of course it has risen
high enough to be on the radar and now another entheogen
is denied the people.
The term, "getting high" doesn't really apply to something
as awesome as these natural entheobotanicals, that experience is not exactly "fun".
I realize this reply is rather late - I just found this thread while searching for something else on the SCOTUS...
But - you are exactly correct - with this ruling, I cannot see how you could be prosecuted as long as your drug use was restricted to religious ceremonies.
Of course, you had better not call your new religion anything "Christian" sounding - or the newly found freedom won't apply to you.
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