Prerequisites: None

Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home

The “psychedelic renaissance” is rapidly advancing, despite some recent setbacks, along three legal tracks: medical use, exemptions for religious use, and state-level legalization. This has posed novel legal, ethical, and philosophical questions, including the adjudication of religious claims, the boundaries of religious liberty, the tension between religion/ spirituality and secular medicine, the balancing of civil liberties and public health, and the widely varying political consequences of consciousness expansion. This seminar will focus primarily on the religious “track,” but will touch on the others as well, and will be accompanied by a symposium on the subject hosted by the law school.