Ron McNutt has been an attorney in Nashville for thirty-eight years. After two federal judicial clerkships, he practiced civil rights litigation for plaintiffs for ten years in a minority-owned law firm. His recent career has been involved in workers’ compensation cases. While earning his undergraduate degree in religion from Tufts University in 1978, Ron organized and led a student organization, the Tufts Altered States of Consciousness Organization, which hosted lectures by speakers in the field of religious and transformative experience through psychedelics, marijuana, meditation, and by other means. After college, he worked for almost two years as a mental health worker at a state mental hospital in Boston. During that time, he attended group psychotherapeutic sessions with Salvador Roquet. In 1983, he graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law. During law school, Ron was the executive research editor of the Georgia Law Review and wrote a research paper, “The Free Exercise Clause and Religious Use of Psychedelics.” He is a certified lay pastor with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has a certificate in teaching English as a second language.