More tea, anyone? Not for now, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which blocked a New Mexico church Wednesday from using hallucinogenic tea that the government says is illegal and potentially dangerous. Justice Stephen Breyer, acting on the full Court's behalf, granted a temporary stay to give both sides time to file more arguments. The Bush administration plans to appeal a 10th Circuit ruling that found the church probably has a religious-freedom right to use the tea.
December 02, 2004 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
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 in the Amazon River Basin.
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