Our Projects
Fighting For Civil Rights, Congitive Liberty, and Individual Freedom
Defending Our Constitutional Rights Initiative
The Rights and Reason Project is expanding to address civil-rights violations by federal agencies, including ICE, the FBI, DHS, and CBP. The initiative educates the public on First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights, with a focus on filming government activity, protest rights, surveillance, and unlawful use of force. When appropriate, the Project pursues strategic litigation to challenge unconstitutional practices and promote accountability.
Protecting Science Through Challenging Drug Scheduling
The Rights and Reason Project is engaged in the legal challenge to the DEA’s effort to schedule DOI and DOC, treating the action as a clear example of agency overreach that threatens scientific research and innovation. The Project advances legal arguments grounded in due process, administrative law, and the real harms caused by unsupported scheduling decisions. More broadly, the Project works through strategic litigation and policy advocacy to oppose unjust drug scheduling, promote evidence-based reform, and defend cognitive liberty against punitive drug control practices.
Defending Religious Freedom: Representing the Arizona Yage Assembly v. Bondi
This litigation challenges the federal government’s efforts to prohibit the sincere religious use of entheogenic sacraments, including ayahuasca, by visionary churches. Brought under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the case argues that the government may not substantially burden religious exercise without meeting the highest constitutional standards. It affirms that unconventional or minority faiths are entitled to the same protections as established religions.
Psychedelic Legal Defense & Emergency Support
The Psychedelic Legal Defense and Support Network works to protect researchers, practitioners, patients, and communities impacted by drug prohibition. The Network provides coordinated legal strategy, expert resources, and rapid-response advocacy in cases involving psychedelics, entheogens, and emerging research compounds. We assist attorneys and defendants with constitutional analysis, scientific expertise, amicus support, and challenges to arbitrary enforcement and unjust drug scheduling. Our work prioritizes cognitive liberty, bodily autonomy, religious freedom, due process, and access to evidence-based care. Beyond individual defense, the Project pursues strategic litigation and administrative challenges to expose systemic harms caused by outdated drug laws, including barriers to research and medical innovation. By combining defense support, impact litigation, education, and coalition-building, we build durable infrastructure for rational reform.
The Vault – Administrative Law Documents (Unpublished) and Research Materials For Challenging the DEA
The Vault will be a focused research repository of unpublished administrative law documents that are not available on PACER or through public court dockets. It will center on administrative hearing materials, evidentiary submissions, expert reports, and agency correspondence generated during challenges to drug scheduling actions, including proceedings involving the five substituted tryptamines, DOI and DOC, and MDMA. These records will capture how scheduling decisions are litigated and justified at the administrative level, often outside public view. By preserving non-public filings and internal materials, The Vault will support future litigation, policy analysis, and legal advocacy aimed at exposing procedural deficiencies, protecting scientific research, and challenging unjustified drug scheduling decisions.
Coalition Building and Supporting Advocacy Groups
The Rights and Reason Project is dedicated to building a coordinated coalition and support infrastructure for organizations engaged in drug policy reform, civil liberties advocacy, scientific research, and harm reduction. It functions as a strategic hub that connects aligned groups, strengthens collective capacity, and supports challenges to unjust drug laws, overbroad scheduling decisions, and regulatory barriers affecting research, medical access, and religious practice. The project offers shared legal and policy resources, including administrative law expertise, litigation strategy support, regulatory analysis, and coordinated amicus or advocacy efforts. It also facilitates collaboration through working groups and strategic convenings, promoting information sharing and reducing duplication of effort. By aligning strategy while respecting organizational independence, the project strengthens the drug policy reform ecosystem and advances durable, evidence-based change through collective action and shared expertise.