Psychedelic Use, Law, and Spiritual Experience (PULSE) Affiliated Researcher

Advisor, University of Washington

John Rapp is a New York and Washington State lawyer, mediator, teacher, ethicist and activist who educates, advises, connects and protects entheogenic practitioners. He taught in the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School’s first Psychedelic Law and Policy Boot Camp in 2024. He has served as an Affiliated Professor at the University of Washington Law School and in similar positions at two graduate business schools. He started his career as a NYC Assistant District Attorney, and moved into litigating class actions and major cases. He has been a manager at three of the world’s largest law firms; directed companywide ethics education for a Fortune 50 tech company; and edited a global magazine. In his career as a law teacher, he has personally taught thousands of lawyers and produced hundreds of seminars. He has written for several legal journals and was profiled by Fortune magazine. He has actively supported the work of the Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants and is a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association. He is very active in the Sacred Garden Community Entheist church, and served on its inaugural Ethics Council.