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ELI5: what stops people from starting religions with ritualistic drug ceremonies (like the Ayahuasca ceremonies of native Americans) where the government must let them have an illegal substance due to religious rights?
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>the government must let them have an illegal substance due to religious rights

That is not true. Claiming that something is a religious ritual does not mean the government automatically has to let you do it. Those laws that make otherwise-illegal substances legal for religious use are carefully and specifically crafted for each individual drug/practice.

In fact the Supreme Court had ruled that peyote use was not protected under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which prompted Congress to pass amendments to the Act which specifically addressed peyote.