When an undergrad, I had access to a quite impressive religious library affiliated with a quite reputable protestant theology school. As part of the undergrad c

When an undergrad, I had access to a quite impressive religious library affiliated with a quite reputable protestant theology school. As part of the undergrad criteria, taking a religious course of some sort was mandatory to achieve graduation. I picked something along the lines of Chirstianity and Public Life, and eventually needed a topic for a research essay for the course. Through my research, what I can definitively state is that numerous psychoactive substances - drugs, if you will - are mentioned by and incorporated into nearly every noteworthy world religion in some way, shape, or form. Yes, mostly for the use of the 'visionary' class like the priests and shamans, but it's all right there in the texts that such things had a legitimate role in the respective religious pursuits. I recall a couple cases regarding Native Tribal rights with psychoactives, but those were very limited in scope in the grand scheme of things. Thus, overall I came to the conclusion that US drug laws are fundamentally at odds with the notion of religious freedom from persecution. I plan on doing nothing of importance with this perpsective however. It's just one of those situations that make me go pause and say "Huh, how about that."