“Usually, I’m not very proud of being British… But you can’t help making the comparison.”

-Richard Dawkins

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"On 21 February 2006 the United States Supreme Court ruled that a church in New Mexico should be exempt from the law, which everybody else has to obey, against the taking of hallucinogenic drugs. Faithful members of the Centro Espirita Beneficiente Unaio do Vegetal believe that they can understand God only by drinking hoasca tea, which contains the illegal hallucinogenic drug dimenthyltryptamine. Note that it is sufficient enough that they BELIEVE that the drug enhances their understanding. They do not have to produce evidence. Conversely, there is plenty of evidence that cannabis eases the nausea and discomfort of cancer sufferers undergoing chemotherapy. Yet the Supreme Court ruled, in 2005, that all patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes are vulnerable to federal prosecution (even in the minority states where such specialist use is legalized). Religion, as ever, is the trump card."

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