Utah Vera Group wins the religious freedom case over psychedelic mushrooms

A new group of faith based in Utah’s state uses “Psychedelic Mushrooms” This week he won a legitimate victory in accordance with the Law on Freedom of the Religious Service of the State.

Lee Jensen-founder of a nonprofit organization known as singlarism-goes to court According to the US Constitution, The State Constitution and the Law on the restoration of freedom of religious freedom.

The complaint states that Jensen, singularism and the profitable hand of the group, mental healing and overcoming LLC DBA Psychedelic Therapy, “use the sacramental tea psilocybin to access the divine, open spiritual paths and mitigate the suffering Clinists. “

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The dried “Gorilla Wizard” with other Psilocybin mushrooms is located on the Palletr Benji “Teopixqui Dez” Dezaval, the founder of the Pack Life Community, which serves as the first psychedelic church in Colorado, February 18, 2025. (Jason Connoli/AFP via Getty Images)

The court documents say that law enforcement agencies sought a spiritual center of singular, confiscated objects, including “sacramental psychoskibin used in the ceremonies of singularism” and threatened the owner to evict singerism from property.

The lawsuit states that Jensen “is now facing the upcoming criminal charges related to Psilocybin, and singular, a small religious group of minority, risk evicting and otherwise destroy the map of excessive authorities.”

District Judge US Jill Parish – appointed former President Barack Obama – on Monday granted the plaintiffs for a preliminary ban, saying that the county imposed a “significant burden” for sincere freedom.

“The plaintiffs are not just theoretical plaintiffs,” Parish wrote. “Based on the record in this case, the court reiterates that his conclusion that the accusation was made in bad faith within the broader efforts to persecute the plaintiffs for his entogenic religious practices and hoping to give the government the second opportunity to consider the issues of free abolition.”

“The prosecutor’s office has already forced the singulary to lose many of its practitioners and affiliates, as well as forcing the plaintiffs to wait for the criminal case to ensure their rights for free use will be the equivalent of the warrant to death for his charged religion,” the judge continued. “For these reasons, the court gives a petition to the prohibition against the costume to the final decision in this court, which tells about the further trial in the criminal case against Mr. Jensen, as far as this case pursues it for violation of the ban on the controlled substances of Utah on Psilocybin.”

PSILOCYBIN Pallet with Mushroom Mushrooms is ready to spread to the Benji Congregation “Teopix Di” Desalta, founder of the Pack Life Community, the First Psychedelic Church in Colorado, on February 18, 2025 in Colorado -Springs. (Jason Connoli/AFP via Getty Images)

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In most circumstances, psychoskibin is illegal in Utah and is considered classified as a schedule that I control the substance by legislation, placing it in the same category as substances like heroin and LSD. The state pilot program, legalized in March 2024, allows you to use two main hospital systems PSILOCYBIN and MDMA therapy Treat problems with Hehai -Health as part of strict rules for patients 18 or older.

The judge noted that the defendants “claim that medical release from psychosibin is not different on the basis of religion because it spreads to all licensed healthcare providers regardless of their religious beliefs and affiliations.”

“Their observation, although correct, lacks the point of view. The contract of free exercise concerns not only with the era of religions, but also with the uniformity between religion and non -religious,” Parish wrote. “Specific, secular release from
Psychiatibin shows that the law does not exceed the religious liberation between religion and non -religion because it “forbids religious behavior, allowing secular behavior that undermines the approved government interests in the same way.”

The mushrooms dry and appear in a glass bowl. Dried mushrooms psilocybin. (Istock)

Utah is considered one of the most religious states in the United States, largely thanks to the strong influence of the Church of Jesus Christ in recent days, also known as the Mormon Church.

The state law, known as the Law on the restoration of Freedom of Utah, came into force in May 2024 and expands the protection and establishes legal standards if the government can intervene in religious exercises. It specifically “prohibits government subjects to make it difficult to implement the free implementation of the human religion, if only the burden is important for promoting a convincing government interest and is the slightest restrictive means of increasing this interest.”

Jensen welcomes the victory in court on Monday, although the final decision in this case remains in consideration.

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“The judge has admitted that it is. It is a responsibility for bad faith,” the founder of the Faith group said KTVX. “If you protect the freedom of religion of one religion, you protect the freedom of all of them.”