The government spent a year
preparing for the preliminary injunction hearing. The hearing itself
lasted nine days. The judge spent a year digesting the evidence and
writing the opinion. This was, in all but name, a full trial. If
there any evidence that religious use of this drug is dangerous in the
quantities and the settings used by UDV, the government had every opportunity to
provide that evidence.
There was in fact no evidence of the kinds of effects
Bobby associates with LSD, in part because of the quantity of DMT naturally
occurring in the leaves used to brew the tea is apparently very small, in part
because the effects of the drug are responsive to setting, mood, and
expectations, and religious use is not the same as party use. There were
studies in Brazil on thousands of worshipers; rates of psychiatric
incidents were not significantly different from rates in the general
population.
Douglas Laycock
University of Texas Law School
727 E. Dean Keeton St.
Austin, TX 78705
512-232-1341
512-471-6988 (fax) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 2/23/2006 5:43 AM To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu Subject: Re: Breaking news in federal RFRA case In a message dated 2/23/2006 2:04:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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I don't know anything about the dangers of hoasca, Bobby Robert Justin Lipkin Professor of Law Widener University School of Law Delaware |
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