An aspiring U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is suing after getting rejected for the job by admitting she consumes ayahuasca during biweekly religious ceremonies.
Juliana Reis, a Brazilian-American member of União do Vegetal, a Christian reincarnationist sect that regularly drinks a sacramental ayahuasca tea to, the group contends, “heighten spiritual understanding and perception, and bring the practitioners closer to God.” The tea contains various compounds and often produces a hallucinogenic experience.
