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In 1985, when the Medical Division of the Ministry of Health (DIMED) included Banisteriopsis caapi in the list of controlled narcotic substances, the União do Vegetal, respecting the law, immediately suspended the distribution of Hoasca tea in all of Brazil for two months.

At that time, the Administration of the UDV requested that the Federal Narcotics Council (CONFEN) examine the ritual use of Hoasca as practiced by the members of the UDV. CONFEN was at that time legally responsible for drug policy in Brazil, similar to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the United States.

In 1986 CONFEN organized an interdisciplinary research committee composed of attorneys, psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists that visited the various sects that use Hoasca tea to analyze the ritualistic context of its use.