Civil Litigation
Jan. 11, 2024
Tulare church can sue for right to use psychedelic drug, judge rules
Federal law enforcement agents raiding the church and arrested pastor Jade J. Osborne in 2020 and seized a shipment of the ayahuasca in 2021.
A church in Tulare can sue the federal government for the right of its members to use the psychedelic drug ayahuasca, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone ruled.
Boone rejected a motion to dismiss that the U.S. Department of Justice filed in July. The judge found that the church had standing to sue, and “sufficiently alleged a substantial burden.” He also rejected a stay in the case, writing that he did not need to offer “agency consider...
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