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Back from Miami, reinvigorated and more encouraged than ever.  Thank you Cannadelic for hosting me and my esteemed co-presenter, Greg Lake, Esq. This year, Greg and I gave glimpses inside some of the major efforts afoot aimed at psychedelic reform - Ayahuasca lawsuits, SAMHSA's letter to [...]

Entheogen attorney Danni Peterson returns to Psychedelica Lex to share his latest news, victory for psychedelic religion in Colorado, and separately the work and progress of the Ass'n of Entheogenic Practitioners that Danni helms in building an ethical and principled network of entheogenic practitioners. You [...]

In this latest installment of Psychedelica Lex, I share a seminar I gave in December 2022.  The State Bar of Arizona was gracious once more to host the Arizona Cannabis Bar Association for its annual pilgrimage to Tucson.    This year my topic is turbulence [...]

This installment of Psychedelica Lex is another video letter to the Psychedelic Bar Association - Law and Regulatory Committee (LARC).     This letter picks up where I left off in my last video letter to the LARC.  In my prior video letter, I posed to [...]

In this installment of Psychedelica Lex, I present a video letter to the Psychedelic Bar Association's Law and Regulatory Committee (LARC). My topic is consideration of employing gatekeepers in the form of licensing users, as one potential pathway in the work LARC is doing on [...]

Well, the long-awaited final action letter from DEA has arrived.    AIMS Institute is now clear to pursue its claims against DEA to stop DEA from interdicting use of Phase II experimental psilocybin compounds on terminally ill cancer patients under Federal Right to Try law.  [...]

Psychedelics and Bankruptcy with Lamar Hawkins, Esq. and Adam Nach, Esq. In this episode of Psychedelica Lex, I interview Lamar Hawkins and Adam Nach, two absolute giants of bankruptcy law. Our topic is the UNavailability of bankruptcy to investors and businesspeople in the non-FDA/DEA path [...]

SAMHSA Says Psychedelics Soon!    [Episode HERE] In May of ‘22 SAMHSA announced there was so much to do. SAMHSA said psychedelics soon.   A letter was sent bearing portent.   Good things to come, so much has been done. SAMHSA said psychedelics soon.   The [...]

I recently had immigration issues come up on one of my psychedelic cases.  In 30 years of law practice, I have never handled so much as a single immigration issue, let alone having to deal with one with a psychedelics connection.   I asked around for [...]

The renown Beckley Foundation has commenced an international Psychedelics Microdosing and Meditation Study.  You do NOT need psychedelics to participate.  You can be part of citizen science! You can see Beckley's website HERE.    You can see me discussing the study HERE.  

In this installment of Psychedelic Lex, I offer a video report to the Law and Regulatory Committee of the Psychedelic Bar Association regarding our progress on creating the initial master topic "Big List" of considerations to be examined in LARC's ongoing project, creation of a Uniform [...]

In this episode of Psychedelica Lex I am joined by fellow entheogen lawyers Greg Lake and Ian Benoius.  Charles Carreon was supposed to participate, so we could discuss comparisons and analysis of the various psychedelic sacramental cases pending in federal court - there are THREE [...]