Allison Hoots Email & Phone Number

Allison Hoots works as an attorney advising on contractual, transactional, employment, corporate/business formation, healthcare, constitutional, and intellectual property law. She has unique experience advising in all areas of the psychedelics space, including practitioners as psychedelic assisted therapy providers, risk reduction support service providers, ketamine practitioners, and therapists, as well as other harm reduction and psychedelic endeavors. She advises churches on liability issues and defensibility of the ceremonial use of psychedelic sacraments, pursuant to the right to religious exercise and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Allison is Head Policy Counsel for New Yorkers for Mental Health Alternatives to develop policy creating legal access to psilocybin and for drug policy reform in New York State. She drafted Bill A10375, a psilocybin permit model based in a public health framework. Allison is President & Board Member of Sacred Plant Alliance, a self-regulating organization of religious practitioners dedicated to the legal, safe, ethical, and sincere ceremonial use of psychedelic sacraments: https://www.sacredplantalliance.org/Allison is on Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines' Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants. Allison is lead author of Chacruna’s Guide to RFRA & Best Practices for Psychedelic Plant Medicine Churches: https://chacruna.net/chacruna_guide_rfra_best_practices_psychedelic_churches/She is a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association.Allison’s previous government experience at both the state and federal levels gives her valuable insights into practices and priorities of agency investigations. She spent two years as an investigator for the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration, investigating alleged violations of ERISA & ACA. Allison interned at the New York State Division of Human Rights & Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, investigating alleged violations of state & federal non-discrimination laws.Allison worked at entertainment law firms & a non-profit music organization to advise clients on copyright & trademark issues. Allison was Co-Chair of the Defined Benefit Plan Subcommittee for ABA Tax Section Employee Benefits Committee October 2019-June 2021. She was Co-Vice Chair of this Subcommittee 2016-2019. In May 2013, she was a speaker for “Tax Bridge to Practice – Introduction to Employee Benefits” panel, ABA Tax Section Meeting. Allison has been an attorney since 2011 and is licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, & District of Columbia.