People v. Woody (1964)

On the evening of April 28, 1962, a group of Navajo members of the Native American Church of California gathered in the…

Native American Church v. Navajo Tribal Council (1959)

The Early Entheogen Cases (1926–1964)

State v. Big Sheep

The History of the Federal Peyote Exemption

While there was no general discussion of the roles that some of the prohibited…

Exordium

Far from the polished marble floors and stagnant elevators of American courtrooms, remote from 100-channel televisions and agitprop images of…

State v. Bullard (1966)

In 1966, the same year that the Mitchell case was decided in California, an entheogen case reached the Supreme Court…

The Federal Control of Entheogens

The first federal law to comprehensively regulate entheogens was enacted in July 1965, and went into…

About “Religious Convictions”

What happens when religious freedom runs headlong into the mighty “War…

People v. Mitchell (1966)

Less than two years after the California Supreme Court decided Woody and Grady, another entheogen case was decided…

Table of Contents

Table of Contents to “Religious Convictions”