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Sacred Plant Alliance to Sue DEA Over Religious Exemption Process

Sacred Plant Alliance (SPA), a coalition of established entheogenic churches, plans to sue the DEA...

DEA Under Fire: Inefficiency or Resistance?

A May 2024 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report critiqued the DEA's religious exemption process...

Press Release – Chacruna Publishes Article Challenging DEA Ayahuasca Report

In partnership with leading ayahuasca experts, the Chacruna Institute published an article in the Journal...

DEA is Guided by a Myopic View of Ayahuasca

Last week, Chacruna brought to light the Drug Enforcement Agency's 2020 report on ayahuasca and...

FOIA brings to light DEA’s Problematic Report, “Ayahuasca: Risks to Public Health and Safety”

On February 13, 2023, the DEA released a single document to the legal team representing...

New Ayahuasca Legal Developments in the US: Soul Quest and Arizona Yagé Federal Court Cases

This article provides an update on two separate cases in U.S. federal court involving the...

Community Alert! Arrests and Encounters with Law Enforcement are Increasing

This is a community alert about the seizures of sacred plants and arrests by law...

DEA Denies Soul Quest’s Religious Exemption: Impacts on the Ayahuasca Community

For four years, Soul Quest and their lawyers petitioned for Religious Freedom Restoration Exemption against...

Terminally Ill Patients Sue DEA for Psilocybin Treatment Under Right to Try Act

“The Right to Try Act” gives patients with life-threatening diseases a way to access investigational...