Legal references

• Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943) — the U.S. Supreme Court held that a flat license tax on door-to-door religious solicitation was an unconstitutional burden on the First Amendment's free exercise, free speech, and free press protections, particularly because the taxed activity was central to the faith in question.
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18 — everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including the right to manifest belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance, alone or in community with others, in public or private.
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Articles 18 & 27 — reaffirms freedom of religion and belief, and protects the right of minority groups to practice their own culture and religion.
• Cognitive Content Moderation — legal scholarship (Mason Marks) arguing that the First Amendment's protection of freedom of thought extends to protecting subconscious and altered-state experience from government restriction.

ORG advocates for entheogens to be treated the way other regulated- but-legal activities are: through education, licensing, and purity/safety standards rather than outright prohibition. As a nonprofit, ORG limits its advocacy to a measured share of its overall mission, in line with current interpretations of nonprofit law.

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