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A 10th Circuit ruling on whether psilocybin use is protected under the First Amendment for a religion called Singularism includes unexplained illustrations, straight lines and stick-figure chairs, beneath a timeline of events. The court vacated a lower court injunction that had favored the religion's founder and sent the case back down. An amicus brief came from a group called Church of Direct Experience, which holds that direct experience, aided by plants, is the source of all true knowing.
Separately, a Florida Court of Appeal opinion describes officers responding to a 911 call about a Black man with dreadlocks near an apartment, only to find a man walking two snakes, a boa constrictor and a ball python, to a pond for exercise and fresh air. He was not running, sweating, or carrying tools. Officers tased him anyway.
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If a federal appeals court can doodle chairs in the margins of a ruling and nobody bats an eye, the least the rest of us can do is let a man walk his snakes to the pond. He wasn't running, wasn't sweating, wasn't carrying so much as a screwdriver, and he still got the full shock treatment off a phone call about his hair. Somebody ought to explain the chairs, sure. But the officers in Florida have a lot more explaining to do.
