Table of Contents
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Part 0: About “Religious Convictions”
Part 3. Prelude: Entheogens & Early Religion
The Early Cases
Part 5. Native American Church v. Navajo Tribal Council
Part 10. The Psychedelic Sixties & Early Seventies
Part 11. The Control of Entheogens
Part 12. The History of the Federal Peyote Exemption
Leary v. United States
United States v. Hudson
United States. v. Spears
United States v. Kuch
People v. Collins
Lewellyn v. State
People v. Werber
The Church of the Awakening (Kennedy v. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs)
People v. Crawford
State v. Whittingham
Gaskin v. State
State v. Soto
People v. Mullins
State v. Randall
Randall v. Wyrick
Whitehorn v. State
Native American Church of New York v. United States
The Cannabis Cases
Non-denominational
State v. Brashear
People v. Evans
U.S. v. Greene
Tantric Hinduism
State v. Rocheleau
State v. Blake
Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
Town v. State
United States v. Middleton
State v. Olsen
United States v. Rush
Commonwealth v. Nissenbaum
Rastafarians
Whyte v. United States
The Peyote Way Church of God Litigation
Peyote Way Church of God, Inc. v. Smith
Peyote Way Church of God, Inc. v. Smith
United States v. Warner
Peyote Way Church of God, Inc. v. Meese III
Peyote Way Church of God, Inc. v. Thornburgh, et. al.
The Supreme Court & Entheogens:
Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (Smith I)
Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Oregon, et al. v. Smith (Smith II)
The Aftermath of Smith
State v. Flesher
State v. Venet
United States v. Boyll
Rheuark v. State
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
United States v. Bauer
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act, 1994 Amendment
Appendix A: State Statutory Peyote exemptions
Bibliography
