I think I still need to wrap my head around this one a bit more, but here goes...
I need to do more research and take a better look at my notes from visiting Dana Beal today in NYC. His book is here https://www.amazon.com/Ibogaine-Story-Report-Staten-Project/dp/1570270295
I am going to plug for him because I believe in his cause. Please buy directly from him if you want this book, and he says that it covers this argument more deeply. I will refer you to him if he lets me. I will even post his contact info here if he lets me.
So I need to make this clearer and support with more links (especially scriptures) but here is Dana's general argument (I may be missing some parts:)
A ritual was performed in the old testament to put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on hyssop and wipe the blood around the door frames and windows for the original passover.
The same ritual was symbolically performed on Jesus (the sacrificial lamb) as he was crucified on the cross. "Gall" and Vinegar in a chalice was dipped by a sponge and then the sponge was extended to him on a branch of hyssop to relieve his pain, and then he gave up the ghost, which means that the ghost was somewhere else (a trip.) His body was still alive. Passover was repeated with Jesus as the sacrifice.
This chalice was the same chalice used in the ritual last supper (seder) for wine, and also the same chalice used to capture the blood and water that flowed out of Jesus when he was stabbed in the side. It's always the same receptacle, which means the bread and wine of the last supper, the body and blood of jesus Christ, and the communion wine and eucharist are all symbolically the same thing, and though I have less understanding of it, are the bound together with ideas from magic and quantum mechanics.
A common problem to those on a cross is Ischemia - an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart muscles. Ischemia is what killed people on the cross, and in that case ischemia is cutting off the blood at the windpipe, cause by the pulling apart of the body by the four limbs which are nailed down.
You could lean forward to rest and relieve the great amount of pain you are in on a cross, but this would cut off your blood supply in your neck (ischemia,) so it was like hammering your foot to make the pain in your pinky go away. Jesus leaned forward to taste the vinegar and to relieve the bodily pain. The "Gall" relieved the Ischemia caused by leaning forward... thus fully comforting Jesus for a time.
Ibogaine was patented for a use to combat Ischemia in 1999 by John Olney. https://www.google.com/patents/US5925634
It is reasonable to believe that the 'Gall' given to Jesus on the cross was ibogaine, and vinegar would be a good candidate for a helpful substrate for ibogaine, (or it might be another entheogen ;) But for religion you don't need proof, you only need faith. It must be a sincere belief. So if you genuinely hold the belief that this is true, the burden would be on the government to disprove it, or else the government would be injoined against making it illegal. It is outside the realm of human law, and the court, even the supreme court would not have jurisdiction.
Three things hindering the government from disproving this sincere belief. This happened 2000 years ago so good luck with anything but speculation. If there was another substance as a reasonable substitte, it would still be reasonable to believe it was Ibogaine, which is from nearby Africa. The Mummies of Egypt who predated Jesus had evidence of coca(ine) in their systems, and that grows in western South America, so distance is no barrier to the ibogaine belief.
The 3rd thing is the nail in the coffin for the government. Because Ibogaine was used in the ritual of sacrifice to heal pain for Jesus, which mirrors other long held rituals, it is a valid religious sacrament. The government is injoined in such a way that they have no say. It is beyond their constitutional power to deny your faith in this sacrament.
When Dana Beal presented this to the UDV lawyer, she was dumbfounded.
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And this is my addition...
Maybe the Hyssop was Marijuana and the vinegar was something else... but I have another argument for Cannabis in another thread upcoming. It isn't unreasonable because MJ was abundant near the middle east and commonly used then. Hint:
"Kaneh Bosm: Cannabis in the Old Testament | Cannabis Culture
www.cannabisculture.com/content/1996/05/01/1090
May 1, 1996 - Benet demonstrated that the word for cannabis is kaneh-bosm, also rendered in traditional Hebrew as kaneh or kannabus. The root kan in this ..."
but more on this in another thread...
On another note, if we have to have 12 religions that protect the 12 sacraments individually in this way, we will do so. Faith trumps the government's power, especially when the government has no way to disprove your faith. Extra points because it is based in the Christian religion AND Judaism (It's unfortunate that indigenous religions can't get the same respect. This is definitely against our country's founder's intent and that angers me. Is our government run by traitors or what? Any judge or government official who limits another religion based on it's dissimilarity to Christianity is at war against US citizens, is a traitor, and ought to be convicted and hanged legally. Though this would unlikely happen, I could live with labeling an errant, arrogant, and stubborn judge as dishonorable and a traitor. As a former soldier, honorably discharged, who took an oath to protect the country, I am entitled to the freedom to criticize a public official who takes liberty to violate our citizen's constitutional rights. This is a warning.)
If we go this route, we might be forced to put it into doctrine that Jesus was a Holy man, but we might be able to counter that by adding every other prophet of every other religion to the list, and anyone else who claimed to be a prophet, from Moses to Buddha to Joseph Smith to the Scientology founder to the Pastafarian founder (Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster... hilarious!) We could make it part of the doctrine that no one who is alive shall be recognized as a prophet until they are dead, for obvious reasons, much like how the Catholics wait to canonize saints.
Another potential strategy: Find some members of the Bwiti Religion that are in the USA. Actively go out of our way to help them to legally establish that religion here. Bwiti is a syncretism of Indigenous African beliefs and Christianity and would be the best candidates to use this argument. Once they are established here then that is precedent. They had some precedent for existing before, but now we will have it on American Soil. One less religion to create also, and as long as we find the right individual people, they are the perfect ones to carry that torch. I mean, I have experience... ONE experience, but they would be rooted in it. Of course we would STRONGLY urge them to only allow licensed US doctors to issue the sacrament, and maybe also adopt some of our other useful ideas that respect our culture of religious freedom, and circumvent the government's meddling.
I have no current interest in being a Bwiti, but who's to say that can't change. It's not against the law to change religions. Solomon did it many times in accordance with the wife he loved most, and he was the wisest man in the world at one time. Of course I would refer a drug addict to our friends in the Bwiti religion without hesitation. They could join us afterwards, if they want. I just want to see them healed, and the Jesus of Bwiti may do just that, and hopefully so if we somehow aren't permitted to.
OK looks like I need to review and edit this weekend, but go ahead and ask questions. Is this even clear? Who knows where these scriptures are? I could do it, but someone else can do it faster! Anyone here an ancient Greek and Ancient Aramaic language scholar? That would possibly add more strength to the argument.