The authors of the communication are M.A.B., W.A.T. and J.-A.Y.T., three Canadian citizens and members of an organization named ''Assembly of the Church of the Universe”, whose beliefs and practices necessarily involve the care, cultivation, possession, distribution, maintenance, integrity and worship of the "Sacrament" of the Church - cannabis or marijuana. The authors were detained for the possession and distribution of narcotic drugs.
Considering the communication the Committee stated that worship and distribution of a narcotic drug cannot conceivably brought within the scope of Article 18 of the Covenant (freedom of religion and conscience), nor can arrest for possession and distribution of a narcotic drug conceivably come within the scope of article 9, paragraph 1, of the Covenant (freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention).
The communication was declared in admissible as it constituted an abuse of the right to submission of complaint.
Citation: M.A.B., W.A.T. and J.-A.Y.T. v. Canada (UN Human Rights Committee, Decision on Admissibility, 8 April 1994) UN Doc. CCPR/C/50/D/570/1993