peyote的意思|peyote的解释-里氏词典

peyote [pe'otɪ]

[医] 拍约他, 仙人球膏(制自墨西哥仙人球的麻醉剂)

peyote

[ noun ]

a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons

<noun.plant>

the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

<noun.artifact>

In a brief order today issued over two dissenting votes, the court said the Minnesota court should restudy the Amish controversy after examining the peyote ruling from Oregon.
Black, who worked for ADAPT as a drug rehabilitation counselor, was himself recovering from drug and alcohol addiction when he used the peyote in September 1983.
The umbrella group claims at least 250,000 members belonging to 70 church chapters that practice the peyote ritual in 23 Western states.
More than 20 states and the federal government exempt religious use of peyote from criminal sanctions.
In that case, members of the Native American Church contended that punishing the religious use of peyote violated religious freedom.
The April decision held out the possibility that states in which peyote is outlawed may deny unemployment benefits to workers fired for using it during religious ceremonies.
The battle began after two members of the Native American Church were fired as counselors at a Roseburg drug and alcohol treatment center because they had used peyote, a hallucinogenic drug, in religious ceremonies.
The two were fired in 1983-84 and denied unemployment benefits. They did not use peyote on the job.
In fact, many states and the federal government already permit use of peyote in religious ceremonies.
The Twitchell case, along with a recent Supreme Court case involving peyote use by a Native American church, retreats from former "special treatment" accorded a person's religious belief, Mansfield said.
"It spread like wildfire," Hale said, adding that it uses the hallucigenic peyote bean "as a sacrament," which also is used in a "limited way" in some other tribal religions.
Follow the Monks to New Mexico, where "it's high, it's clear, it's desert and it's peyote land."
But high court members said Monday that state officials apparently don't try to ban peyote use on Indian reservations.
There is no dispute that both men are members of the Native American Church and sincerely believe that peyote is part of the church's religious practices.
Circuit Judge James Buckley filed a dissent, saying DEA had not adequately explained why it denied Olsen's claim but granted a religious exemption for the use of peyote to the Native American Church, an American Indian religion.
"Isn't it likely there will continue to be exemptions (from criminal laws) for peyote use" regardless of how the court rules, Justice John Paul Stevens suggested.
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled that applying the ban to prohibit the religious use of peyote violated the free exercise of the Indians' religion.
Haskie said church members believe peyote use as a sacrament is as old as the origin of the Navajos.

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