This month an Iowa church got what every sacramental-plant congregation dreams about: a path to legally import and brew ayahuasca. It took eight years, a lost lawsuit, a sealed agreement with the DEA and a probationary state registration [1]. Reading the story, a question I’ve been circling for a while stood up and cleared its throat. Should we start a religion? Not as a gag, though I’ll admit mine began as one.

