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    ADF Webinar #1: Winning the Right to Religious Use of Ayahuasca

    10.09.2019

    Winning the Right to Religious Use of Ayahuasca

     

    Presented by: Jeffrey Bronfman
    Hosted by: Bia Labate

    On May 21, 1999 Jeffrey Bronfman answered a loud knock on the door of the offices of the União do Vegetal (UDV) church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He opened the door to encounter more than a dozen armed US Customs Service and FBI agents with a warrant to seize all the church’s sacramental hoasca tea (ayahuasca) claiming it was contraband and impermissible to possess and distribute under both US and international law. This event initiated a legal action where the small church eventually sued the government of the United States for the return of its sacrament and a court order authorizing its religious practice.

    The legal action, which occurred over a more than 10-year period, ultimately reaching the Supreme Court of the United States, was fully resolved in the church’s favor. In a truly historic precedent setting decision internationally the UDV ultimately secured it’s rights through an agreement negotiated with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) whereby it became a legally registered importer, distributor and manufacturer of an otherwise prohibited substance.

    “In its decision and judgment the United States Supreme Court recognized and affirmed the União do Vegetal as a valid religion, where the act of receiving communion with Hoasca was central to its religious faith. The decision was based on a careful review of the transcripts from the testimony given at the New Mexico hearing, more than a thousand pages of supportive documentation (including the scientific research) submitted into evidence, and hundreds of pages of legal arguments and expert opinions submitted by both sides over more than 5 years of litigation”.

    Jeffrey Bronfman

    “Winning the Right to Religious Use of Ayahuasca” is the first webinar about ayahuasca and legality.

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    Tags: legality , ayahuasca , Ayahuasca Defense Fund , webinar