Enforcement September 1983 🇧🇷 Brazil

Federal police burn the Santo Daime community's cannabis at Colônia Cinco Mil

Federal police destroyed and burned the cannabis that the Santo Daime community of Padrinho Sebastião grew at Colônia Cinco Mil near Rio Branco, where it was used as a sacrament under the name Santa Maria. Sebastião was summoned to testify, and the Ministry of Justice set up a commission of police, army and prosecutors; whole families could hardly be jailed.^[1]

In the cultural atlas

TraditionsSanta Maria in Santo DaimeIn the 1970s one branch of the Brazilian ayahuasca religion Santo Daime took up cannabis as a second sacred plant and named it after the Virgin Mary. The state came to accept the church's tea; the herb stayed a crime, and the church declared it would no longer allow it in its ceremonies.

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References

UFPE — Maria de Fátima Henrique de Almeida Ramos, Santo Daime: a Colônia Cinco Mil e a contracultura (1977–1983), master's dissertation (2002)archived

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