Sacred mushrooms were used to assist in visionary states as early as 4000 BC and in religious ceremonies long before the Aztec civilization. Many believe that the mushrooms talk to them, opening up channels of communicatrion with animals and spirit entities. Yet, for all practical purposes, the entheogenic experience - finding god within - has been outlawed in all countries. In Sacred Mushrooms & the Law attorney Richard Glen Boire provides a much needed review of laws regarding the possession and use of sacred mushrooms. The laws are an arcane mish-mash that renders nature an illicit drug-lab.

Boire offers a fascinating discourse on cognitive liberty in which he compares the laws criminalizing the use of entheogenic mushrooms to a kind of "Newspeak". In George Orwell´s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Oceania government established Newspeak, a carefully crafted language designed by the government for the purpose of making unapproved modes of thought impossible. Our modern laws that criminalize sacred mushrooms effectively outlaw unapproved states of consciousness - including certain religious ecstatic experiences. Sacred Mushrooms & the Law reviews federal and state laws relative to psilocybin and psilocin mushrooms , tells how to determine punishments, reveals the profile postal workers use to identify a "drug package", explores possible defenses, and much more.