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agents in their quest to achieve direct spiritual experience. While recognizing that
governments have a vested interest in reducing the impact of recreational drug use and
abuse within their territories, drug laws, in and of themselves, are not sufficient grounds
for baring the legitimate use of entheogenic sacraments for personal spiritual experience.
The burden of proof for the limiting of any activity that can be construed as the
cultivation of direct personal spiritual experience is clearly placed on any regulating
body, governmental or otherwise. The universal right to direct spiritual experience will
be afforded to all equally without any interference by regulating bodies unless said
regulating bodies can demonstrate beyond any doubt that the activities of any individual
is in violation of the fundamental human rights of another person or persons. Claiming
that an individuals practice, such as might be the case with the use of entheogens, is
against any law, is not sufficient grounds for disallowing the practice. The standard for
the burden of proof is to be judged solely on how any given practice violates the rights of
others.