Skip to main contentThe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was kind to hallucinogen evangelists last year.
Last May, the appeals court upheld a ruling that the family of late Oregon novelist and LSD tester Ken Kesey owns the rights to one of his last works, a screenplay for a Pendleton Round-Up movie called Last Go Round.
One Hollywood producer told WW in 2008 the movie could be filmed on a modest budget of $10 million to $12 million, but it was locked in a battle between Kesey's widow Faye and Michele Francis, a onetime private investigator, Playboy model and Kesey business associate. Read the full story here.
Then in June, the appeals court ruled that the U.S. Justice Department cannot supervise Ashland's Church of the Holy Light of the Queen, a branch of the Santo Daime church that uses the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in its rituals, and sometimes serves small doses to children. A Portland branch called the Church of the Divine Rose uses the same practices; read the full story here.
We're obviously late reporting these updates to two past WW cover stories, but nobody else seems to, and we like closure.
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