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Mestre Gabriel founds the União do Vegetal
On 22 July 1961, in a rubber camp in Acre near the Bolivian border, José Gabriel da Costa founded the Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal, an ayahuasca religion that calls the tea 'vegetal'.
1961 CE · -10.28, -67.18 · status: official
The account
The UDV became one of the largest ayahuasca churches. In 2006 the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that its American branch could use the tea in rituals. Position approximate.