Entheogenic Churches in 2024: Raids, Religious Renegades, Regulation

We are currently witnessing a renaissance of interest in entheogenic spirituality. Find out what the expansion of the sacramental use of entheogen means for the societal landscape of religion. In this live panel discussion, you will learn what the Religious Freedom Restoration Act means for sacred medicine churches, the legal complications that arise for these churches, and how entheogenic churches can embrace safety and ethics.

Entheogenic Churches and their role in creating spiritual community
What the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) is and means
Level of scrutiny by the government these churches face
How to hold the entheogenic church container ethically and safely
The role entheogenic churches play in the evolving psychedelic landscape

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Lacey White Moderator

Plant Spirit School Program Manager

As a yoga teacher, psychedelic integration coach, and holistic health guide, Lacey is an advocate for embodied wellness and deep connection as a tool for personal and community healing. Through my various offerings, I help people who feel out of alignment with their health and wellbeing to reconnect with their bodies, the Earth, and their relations.

Mike Marinacci

Author of Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches

Mike Marinacci is an independent expert on psychedelic spiritual groups and nontraditional American religious sects. He is the author of California Jesus and Mysterious California and coauthor of the bestselling Weird California. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Martha Hartney

Attorney & Drug Reform Advocate

Martha J. Hartney is an estate planning attorney in Colorado. She was the first attorney to graduate from the CIIS Certificate Program in Psychedelic Therapies and Research. Martha champions the legal, safe, and responsible use of plant medicines in America as a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants and the first steward of the Psychedelic Bar Association’s Religious Use Committee.

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Serena Wu

Partner at Radicle Law LLP

Serena Wu is a business attorney and Harvard Law alum, who co-founded Radicle Law to provide innovative solutions to mission-driven clients in emerging industries. She also authored the novel, Wyra's Search for the Rainbow Pearls, a story about returning to wholeness with the help of psychedelics.

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Merrill Ward

Awakening Divinity Ministries / Exec. Dir. & Minister

Rev. Merrill Ward, Ep. Gn. is an ordained gnostic priest, advisor, consultant, entheologian and educator in the field of entheogenic spirituality. His in-depth field work over the past 15 years has been utilized in a number of important scientific research studies published through the Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.

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