It's a tempest in a teapot.

Followers of a Brazilian-based Christian church group in the United States want to be able to drink hoasca, a hallucinogenic type of tea, during their religious services. But the Justice Department says the tea is illegal and falls under the classification of a banned substance.

A federal judge will soon decide whether Oregon's Church of the Holy Light of the Queen will be allowed to consume the tea under the religious freedom restoration act.

Hoasca (pronounced wa-SA-ca) is made in the Brazilian rain forest by scraping the bark off tropical vines. Believers say the tea allows them to have visions and enables talks with God and communications with spirits.

The Oregon group is fighting to be allowed to consume the tea under the religious freedom restoration act.