Free Legal Tune Ups for Existing Clients
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| McAllister Law is offering a free 20 minute legal consultations for all existing and past clients who have paid fees to the firm to kick off the new year. These calls are designed to check in on the progress of your work and provide input on your potential legal needs going forward. Calls must be completed by the end of January and this offer does not include discussing active matters already in process with McAllister Law. To schedule such a call, email Sean directly at sean@mcallisterlawoffice.com |
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New Enforcement Actions in Colorado against Decrim/Personal Use Projects
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| Throughout the past two years, Colorado’s Department of Revenue (“DOR”) Natural Medicine Division has issues more than two dozen cease and desist letters to people operating in the decriminalization/personal use space of natural medicines. The focus of these DOR cease and desist letters was largely projects seeming to advertise the direct sale of natural medicine products. DOR has not done significant follow up on these letters, largely just issuing them with no enforcement actions like lawsuits or criminal prosecutions. However, in the past few months, Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies (“DORA”) has issues multiple cease and desist letters to projects focused on sharing natural medicines and receiving payment for bona fide harm reduction services. These DORA cease and desist letters are striking at the heart of the personal use provisions, saying that people who prepare, facilitate or integrate others from a psilocybin journey are engaged in the unauthorized practice of facilitation. McAllister Law has requested an administrative hearing for one of the DORA cease and desist recipients and expects to go to hearing on this matter by the spring. If you are engaged in giving away medicine as part of being paid for harm reduction services, now is the time to review your process to ensure that you are not vulnerable to being shut down if DORA finds out about your project. Contact Sean to discuss these issues more in depth at sean@mcallisterlawoffice.com |
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New Continuing Education Requirements for Colorado Facilitators
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| Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies (which regulates licensed facilitators and facilitator training programs) recently updated its requirements for continuing education (CE) credits.
Previously, facilitators were required to complete 20 CE credits per year to maintain licensure. Under the new rule, facilitators must complete one CE credit for each month they hold an active license, totaling 12 credits for a full year of licensure. Facilitators may also complete up to three credits by participating in bona fide facilitator peer support groups.
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Opinion Letters Available
for Novel Molecules and Psychedelic Churches
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| In the past year, McAllister Law has issued several legal opinion letters for projects working with molecules that are not federally listed controlled substances, but still have some arguable psychedelic effects. The most famous one of these is 4 ACO DMT, which has effects similar to psilocybin but is not a listed substance under federal law. The law in this area is complex and involves and assessment of federal and state analogue acts, which make it a crime to possess, manufacture, or sell a substance with a substantially similar chemical structure or effect as a controlled substance. These opinion letters are normally $5,000, but are being offered for $3,500 through the end of January 2026.
In addition, for clients who have worked with McAllister Law to create or improve their defensibility as a psychedelic church, the Firm is offering flat fee opinion letters saying that the organizations practices meet the standards for legal protection under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the equivalent state laws (assuming of course your practice meets this standard in Sean’s sole discretion after full review). These opinion letters have usually cost thousands of dollars in the past, but Sean is offering these opinion letters for just $800 through the end of January 2026. Contact Sean if you are interested in obtaining this opinion letter for your practice.
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Washington University
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Series
For more info, see here
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| March 3, 2026
St. Louis, MO
Sean will be providing an overview of the law around psychedelic assisted therapy in the United States.
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World Ayahuasca Forum
For more info, see here
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| September 9-13, 2026
Girona, Spain
The Firm is sponsoring this event and also hoping to speak on the legal status of ayahuasca in the United States.
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Sean Hocking
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