• It is an inherent right to use natural entheogens for therapeutic, medical, and spiritual purposes.
• Cultivation, possession, and consumption of entheogens should not be a priority for law enforcement.
• Healthcare professionals and other trained healers should have a legal right to conduct ceremony and healing with entheogens and be protected from prosecution, licensure revocation, or admonishment.

• Help people discover how entheogens can benefit individuals, their communities, and the broader global society—as well as stewardship of our planet.
• Honor indigenous people’s history of connection with entheogens, promoting respect for the community’s well-established sacred, spiritual relationship with the natural world.
• Include elders as advisors to our organization and vital guides in our multi-layered fabric of community.
• Promote love, justice, diversity, and kindness in our community, finding ways to learn from one another and respect differences.
• Allow every individual to interpret and incorporate the natural medicine journey in their own way. Entheogenic experiences change us, challenge us, heal us, and open us to greater consciousness.
• Recognize the spiritual power of entheogens. It is a challenge to translate the language of these medicines into human words, but we humbly acknowledge the teachings they offer—if we listen.

Entheo seeks to partner with social justice organizations to foster an alliance in addressing the desperate cry for societal solutions to our statewide mental health/chemical dependency crisis.

Entheo is building a community of survivors of the failed 12-step system enforced through the courts and through Ricky’s Law and Civil Commitments in Washington State. This kind of forced ineffective treatment does not consider a person’s right to have authority over their own healing when it comes to the revolving door of civil commitments on the most-vulnerable, who would benefit from more holistic care.

The evolving door of failed treatment modalities forced on the most vulnerable is a conversation which must change. Yasmeen Waheed, Claire Sundstrom, and Timothy Clemans lead our committee for alternative solutions to civil commitments and forced treatment for mental health and chemical dependency.

This committee is working on advocacy for the mentally ill/chemically dependent population regarding their needs/wants. The goal is to create a pathway forward for funding a hospital-type setting for holistic medicine, including medical psilocybin (similar to what was passed in Oregon, through measure 109).