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Just in from France:

Jan 13, 2005
by Doctorcito
Ayahuasca.com Forums

Today, at 13:30 (GMT +1) the Paris tenth court of appeal acquitted five French and one Brazilian daimistas, and ordered restitution of the seals (the seized tea). After no less than five years since the first wave of arrests, and true personal agony for some, these people are fully discharged. Only two of them were present today, but what a rejoicing!

We (partner and I) have been able to obtain what in French legal jargon is called the "motivation" of the verdict. It certainly will be of great interest for people implied in ongoing legal cases in Australia, Germany, and the USA, as it is, to my knowledge, the first legal case in the Western world where the decision was clearly and entirely based on the status of the tea:

* Ayahuasca is not DMT and thus cannot be considered scheduled.

* The sole toxicity of a "product" doesn't allow legal authority (Justice) to consider it scheduled.

* The operation of decoction, infusion, or maceration doesn't permit to obtain a "substance" ["a pure substance"] and is not a "preparation" [in the technical, pharmacological, and... legal sense].

* A preparation is a technical operation consisting in having [pure] substances previously at disposal before mixing them with other substances [italics in the original].

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