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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Brazilian religious society}}<br />
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{{Infobox organization<br />
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| caption = Altar used in UDV ceremonies, with a photograph of founder [[Mestre Gabriel]]<br />
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| formation = 1961<br />
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| headquarters = [[Brasília]], Brazil<br />
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| language = Portuguese<br />
| leader_title = Mestre<br />
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The '''Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal''', or '''UDV''', is a [[Syncretism|syncretistic]] religious society founded in 1961 in the Brazilian city of [[Porto Velho]] by José Gabriel da Costa, known as [[Mestre Gabriel]].<ref name="Loures De Assis 2017">{{Cite journal |title=De quem é a ayahuasca? Notas sobre a patrimonialização de uma "bebida sagrada" amazônica |journal=Religião & Sociedade |last1=Loures De Assis |first1=Glauber |date=6 December 2017 |issue=3 |volume=37 |pages=46–70 |last2=Alves Rodrigues |first2=Jacqueline |doi=10.1590/0100-85872017v37n3cap02 |publication-place=Rio de Janeiro |language=pt |trans-title=To whom does the ayahuasca belong? Notes on the patrimonialization of a "sacred beverage" from Amazon |doi-access=free}}</ref> The term ''vegetal'' in its name refers to the [[psychoactive]] brew [[ayahuasca]], known as ''hoasca'' in Brazil. This is prepared by boiling two plants in water, {{lang|qu|mariri|italic=yes}} (''[[Banisteriopsis caapi]]'') and {{lang|qu|chacrona|italic=yes}} (''[[Psychotria viridis]]''), both of which are native to the [[Amazon rainforest]]. Ayahuasca has been fully legal in Brazil since 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erowid.org/chemicals/ayahuasca/ayahuasca_law6.shtml|title=Legal Status of Ayahuasca in Brazil|publisher=Erowid.org|date=March 2001|access-date=25 February 2019}}</ref><br />
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==U.S. Supreme Court case==<br />
{{main|Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal}}<br />
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In 1999, [[United States Customs Service|U. S. Customs]] agents seized over {{convert|30|usgal|L|abbr=off|sp=us}} of ayahuasca, which had been shipped to the [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]] branch of UDV. While no charges were filed, the UDV filed suit in 2000, claiming that the seizure was an illegal violation of the church members' rights<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Toobin|first1=Jeffrey|authorlink1=Jeffrey Toobin|title=High Tea|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/20/high-tea|accessdate=16 October 2017|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=13 December 2004}}</ref> and seeking a [[preliminary injunction]] preventing the US federal government from barring the group's use of ayahuasca. In 2002, U.S. District Chief Judge [[James Aubrey Parker]] granted the church's motion.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=O Centro Espirita Beneficiente União do Vegetal v. Ashcroft |vol=282 |reporter=F. Supp. 2d |opinion=1236 |court=[[D.N.M.]] |date=2002 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/282/1236/2480162/ |accessdate=2018-08-04}}</ref> In 2006, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] unanimously delivered judgment in favor of the church.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Greenhouse|first1=Linda|authorlink1=Linda Greenhouse|title=Sect Allowed to Import Its Hallucinogenic Tea|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/politics/sect-allowed-to-import-its-hallucinogenic-tea.html|accessdate=16 October 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=22 February 2006}}</ref><ref>[http://udvusa.org/supreme-court.html Supreme Court Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521234033/http://udvusa.org/supreme-court.html |date=21 May 2012 }} União do Vegetal USA.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=347 U.S. 418 (2005) |pages=418–439 |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/546bv.pdf |access-date=10 July 2018}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Santo Daime]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* Grob C.S. et al. (1996) "Human Psychopharmacology of Hoasca, a Plant Hallucinogen used in Ritual Context in Brazil" draft paper for the ''Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease''<br />
* FAGUNDES, André. O Direito Penal e as minorias religiosas hoasqueiras (ayahuasqueiras) na Espanha. Comentários à decisão judicial da 4ª Seção da audiência provincial de Valência, processo n. 46250370042016100256. In: Derechos humanos desde la interdisciplinariedad en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades. DÍAS, R. L. S. et al. (eds.) Madrid: Dykinson, 2020. p.&nbsp;93-110.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{official website|udv.org.br}}<br />
* [https://udvusa.org/ Official website of the UDV in the United States]<br />
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