Introducing PULSE: Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience

Event Description

This academic year, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School proudly launched a new project called PULSE: Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience.

PULSE convenes legal and religious scholars and practitioners with diverse perspectives to discuss how law, policy, and ethics affect the religious and spiritual use of psychedelics. Affiliated researchers will explore how different religious traditions might view psychedelic sacraments, the legal challenges of incorporating psychedelics into established or newly-formed religious traditions, state and federal regulation of psychedelic churches and religious services, ethical and legal standards for churches and their practices, and legal and ethical issues associated with integrating psychedelic spiritual care into medical practice and end-of-life care.

Funded by a grant from the Mahindra Humanities Center’s Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, part of a larger cross-center initiative.

Panelists

• Moderator: Mason Marks, Florida Bar Health Law Section Professor at Florida State University College of Law; Senior Fellow and Lead of the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
• Victoria Litman, Visiting Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law; Fellow in Psychedelic Law and Spirituality at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
• Swayam Bagaria, Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies, Harvard Divinity School
• Jaime Clark-Soles, Professor of New Testament Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Director, Baptist House of Studies, Southern Methodist University