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HALLUCINOGENIC drugs & religious experience; RELIGION & law; RELIGION & justice; NARCOTICS; RELIGION; LAW; UNITED States. Supreme Court

This article presents background information on a case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 which raises the issue of whether a small sect called O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal (UDV) should be permitted to make ritual use of a drug that is prohibited by law. The case of Gonzales v. UDV raises a long-standing question: when a general law enacted for a legitimate purpose, like the drug law, conflicts in a particular case with a religious practice, should the law give way and exempt the practice?