Don’t know if anybody else has heard about this case won recently in the Utah Supreme court, Justices uphold religious peyote use. But basically, there’s this dude who’s part of the Native American Church who got busted for using peyote as part of religious sacraments.

Lsaintcrow, a blogger at God & Consequences, has a post about it (which I found cross-posted at the Juggler), if you’d like more details on the whole thing.

It’s being hailed as this great triumph for religious freedom in America and stuff. Which I don’t really see, myself. I think this is an ever-more increasing time of restriction in America. This ruling is very much a fluke. To me, what would be a really astounding leap forward in religious freedom is for ordinary people to start recognizing - in general - that drugs can be (and are) a religious experience for anyone. You don’t need to be a member of a tribe or of some church, or any of that shit. Anybody can fucking smoke pot or salvia, or drop acidm, shrooms, yage, peyote, or whatever, and touch the face of god, or nature, or consciousness. Or whatever you want to call it. That’s the key issue underlying this whole thing, and underlying the war on drugs in general. Is that people are being indoctrinated and manipulated out of alternate god-given states of consciousness. States of mind which could really help us slow down and look around at the world and all the fucked up shit that’s going down because of all those evil fuckers out there.