Religious challenge to drug laws ruling [8th Circuit] News
Religious challenge to drug laws ruling [8th Circuit]

Carl Eric Olsen v. Michael Mukasey, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, September 8, 2008 [rejecting claims that federal and state drug laws violate the constitutional and statutory rights of a priest in a religious organization that embraces the sacramental use of marijuana]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Eighteenth Amendment came into effect

On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

English Parliament bans Roman Catholicism

On January 16, 1581, the English Parliament banned Roman Catholicism throughout the country during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. From that time on, Catholicism declined in England until the Catholic Emancipation of the late 18th century.

Read the history of the Roman Catholic Church in England.