Allison (Bieber) Hoots – Hoots Law Practice PLLC

Allison Hoots, Esq. is considered one of the leading attorneys advising about psychedelics and other controlled substances in the US. She advises clients at Hoots Law Practice PLLC  on a variety of federal legal matters and she is licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, and DC while collaborating with a mycelium network of trusted co-counsel attorneys in the US. She has unique experience advising in a breadth of areas in the ecosystem related to controlled substances, particularly psychedelic substances. She advises 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 skilled at providing comprehensive and nuanced legal counsel in employment matters, business formation, issues of copyright ownership and licensing, and transactional matters, including services agreements. Allison has practiced law with small boutique law firms and an Am 100 law firm. She also has government experience at both the state and federal levels, giving her valuable insights into the 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 and ACA, and several years interning at both the New York State Division of Human Rights and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, investigating alleged violations of state and federal non-discrimination laws.

Allison was ranked by Chambers in 2025 as a Top Ranked Band 1 attorney in Psychedelics Law.

She is a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association (PBA), where she received the “Legal Scholarship Award” in the inaugural PBA Awards in 2025.

She is also Head Policy Counsel for New Yorkers for Mental Health Alternatives to develop policy creating legal access to psilocybin.

Allison is Executive Director 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 the 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/

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