peyote

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Smith, the Supreme Court upheld the firing of two Native American employees who had been denied unemployment benefits after using peyote, a sacrament in their religious ceremonies.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2024

For example: providing a religious exemption to Indigenous people who take peyote as part of a ritual.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Native Americans' free-exercise right to ingest peyote was denied in the 1990 Smith decision.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2022

Awareness of the peyote religion poses an ethical dilemma for Pollan: As its practitioners explain, it requires wild cacti — cultivated plants do not have the same spiritual power.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2021

The other main source of Christian ideas has been the peyote cult, which includes a roughly Christian version of God and Christ visualized as the father and the brother.

From Washo Religion by Downs, James F.