Editing Dimethyltryptamine (section)

=====North America=====
* [[Canada]] – DMT is classified as a [[Controlled Drugs and Substances Act|Schedule III]] drug under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, but is legal for religious groups to use.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 May 2019 |title=Health Canada allows more religious groups to import psychedelic ayahuasca |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-canada-allows-more-religious-groups-to-import-psychedelic-ayahuasca-1.4414145 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421212418/https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-canada-allows-more-religious-groups-to-import-psychedelic-ayahuasca-1.4414145 |archive-date=21 April 2022 |access-date=8 March 2022 |website=Ctvnews.ca |vauthors=O'Brien C}}</ref> In 2017 the [[Santo Daime]] Church Céu do Montréal received religious exemption to use [[ayahuasca]] as a sacrament in their rituals.<ref>{{Cite news | vauthors = Dunlevy TC |date=15 October 2019 |title=What's all the buzz about? Montreal woman seeks to demystify ayahuasca. |url=https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article400780.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250422092750/https://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/article400780.html |archive-date=April 22, 2025 |work=[[Montreal Gazette]]}}</ref>
* [[United States]] – DMT is classified in the United States as a [[List of Schedule I drugs (US)|Schedule I]] drug under the [[Controlled Substances Act|Controlled Substances Act of 1970]].

In December 2004, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] lifted a stay allowing the [[Brazil]]-based [[União do Vegetal]] church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year. This decoction is a tea made from boiled leaves and vines, known as [[hoasca]] within the UDV, and [[ayahuasca]] in different cultures. In ''[[Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal]]'', the Supreme Court heard arguments on 1 November 2005, and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U.S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]].

Also suing under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, three [[Santo Daime]] churches filed suit in federal court to gain legal status to import DMT-containing [[ayahuasca]] tea in 2008. The [[United States District Court for the District of Oregon|U.S. District Court in Oregon]] ruled in ''Church of the Holy Light of the Queen v. Mukasey'' (615 [[Federal Supplement|F.Supp.]]2d 1210) ruled that the religious group could import, distribute, and brew ayahuasca. A matter of religious freedom protected by the religious freedom law, the court issued a [[Injunction|permanent injunction]] barring the government from prohibiting or penalizing the sacramental use of the religious drink.