Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418

This is Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, 546 U.S. 418, the United States Supreme Court's unanimous 2006 ruling under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act permitting a Brazilian-derived church to import and consume ayahuasca as a religious sacrament. As the primary published opinion of the nation's highest court it is the correct source for the case's holding and legal reasoning. Its limit is that it settles the legal standing of this specific church's specific sacramental use under United States federal law, not the legal status of ayahuasca use generally or in any other jurisdiction, so a claim generalizing beyond that holding needs to be checked against the law actually governing the case in question.