Episode 85: Karma Koala Podcast 292: Ronald McNutt – 40+ Years of Psychedelics & Law. Insights, Thoughts & The Future of Law with Psychedelic Input & Thinking

The koalas are trying to speak to as many lawyers as possible who have been on a law journey in their professional life and a psychedelic journey in their private life and learn how and where to the two interconnect in the personal and professional sense.

Will psychedelics change the law or visa versa>

We think it’s a bit of both and talking to people like Ronald really explores those connections. I hope you enjoy the conversation and much as we do.

Ronald McNutt studied Religion at Tufts University in the mid/late 1970s. After taking an impactful psychology course on Altered States of Consciousness that included well-known guest speakers such as Walter Huston Clark, Ram Dass, and Roland Fisher, among others, McNutt organized the Tufts Altered States of Consciousness Organization, a student group which hosted lectures by prominent speakers in the field of consciousness.

McNutt went on to study law at the University of Georgia, where he became the executive research editor of the Georgia Law Review and wrote a research paper on the first amendment protection for psychedelics. He practiced as an attorney based in Nashville for forty years, with a focus on civil rights litigation and workers’ compensation cases. He worked on numerous cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination, and unsafe confinement.

His appreciation for plant medicine and mysticism remained ardent during the entirety his adult life, with a particular interest in indigenous traditions. He is active in the Nashville Psychedelic Society and as a discussion leader and journalist in other psychedelic-community-spaces

https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/agents/people/3670

Ronald on Acedemia.com

I have been primarily a litigation attorney since I came to Nashville in 1983. I am a steward of the Litigation and Advocacy Committee of the Psychedelic Bar Association and an administrator of the Nashville Psychedelic Society.  For over ten years, I litigated plaintiffs’ civil rights, employment discrimination and constitutional law cases. For over twenty-four years, I worked for the state of Tennessee, primarily doing workers’ compensation litigation for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. I have a B. A. degree from Tufts University, in religion, from 1978.  I was the executive research editor of the Georgia Law Review during law school. I was the founder and director of the Tufts University Altered States of Consciousness Organization during college. I am a chaplain resident and a lay pastor with the Presbyterian church (USA).

Read his papers

https://independent.academia.edu/McNuttRonald


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