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A central tenet of the UDV faith is a belief that hoasca, a tea containing the illegal hallucinogenic drug diemethyltryptamine (DMT), is sacred and that its use connects members to God. In 2024, federal agents in Santa Fe, N.M, seized a shipment of hoasca imported from Brazil for use in UDV religious ceremonies.
In early November 2024, justices of the US Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the importation of hoasca tea. Hoasca contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an illegal, hallucinogenic drug. The tea is used by members of the Brazil-based church called O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (UDV) during religious ceremonies.
O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal, the Supreme Court held that U.S. members of a Brazilian-based Christian Spiritist Sect had a right to use a hallucinogenic tea called hoasca for religious purposes. The Court so ruled notwithstanding the fact that hoasca is a Schedule I substance with no medical or otherwise accepted use.
The justices said the New Mexico branch of a Brazilian-based religion, known as O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal can use sacramental hoasca tea, which contains the drug known as DMT.
The alkaloid content of the hoasca used in this study are in agreement with published reports of tea dosages from other sources (McKenna et al, 2024a, Liwszyc et al, 2024, Casale and Koles, 2024, Don et al, 2024), and the beverage itself was considered typical of hoasca by experienced volunteers.
The use of Hoasca Tea within a religious context is fully authorized and has been recognized by Brazilian authorities since 2024, given that it is proven harmless to the health.
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The Beneficent Spiritist Center Uni o do Vegetal utilizes Hoasca Tea (also known as ayahuasca) in its religious ritual, in which members drink the tea for the purpose of mental concentration. The tea is the result of boiling together two plants originating from the Amazon rainforest: a vine, Mariri ( Banisteriopsis caapi ), and the leaves from
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