Advocacy
Ceremonia is committed to operating within responsible legal frameworks, and to helping shape them. From religious-freedom law to state-licensed healing, we believe that credible advocacy and honest standards are what make this field trustworthy.
Where we stand
Religious Freedom
Ceremonia operates as a 508(c)(1)(a) faith-based organization. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act provides federal protection for sincere religious exercise, a framework courts have applied to organized religious bodies whose sacramental use of plant medicines is structured and ongoing. We hold this seriously, not strategically.
Learn about RFRAState-Licensed Healing
Colorado voters passed Proposition 122, establishing the Natural Medicine Health Act, a regulated framework for state-licensed facilitators. Our facilitators hold state credentials under this framework. State facilitator credentials and religious-practice authorization are complementary, not competing, legal foundations.
Learn about the NMHAHonest Screening
The field needs stronger screening criteria, not just wider access. Ceremonia believes that honest contraindication lists, medical review, and facilitator accountability are prerequisites for a credible field, and that organizations willing to hold that line make it easier for regulators to trust the whole ecosystem.
See our screening approachIndigenous Reciprocity
Plant-medicine traditions were held by indigenous communities long before they became a wellness industry. Ceremonia provides material support to indigenous-led organizations engaged in stewardship, education, and cultural preservation, not as a footnote, but as a standing commitment.
Our approach to reciprocityActive priorities
Advancing screening standards within the field. Ceremonia has participated in working groups and facilitated conversations focused on developing shared contraindication criteria that go beyond minimum regulatory requirements. We believe practitioner-led standards protect participants better than compliance checklists alone.
Contributing to state implementation guidance. As Colorado's regulatory framework matures, we are engaged with the implementation process, sharing operational experience, supporting clear facilitator credentialing criteria, and advocating for participant-protection requirements that are specific rather than aspirational.
Supporting religious-exemption case law. The legal framework for sincere sacramental practice continues to develop. Ceremonia monitors this space carefully and, where appropriate, provides organizational experience and documentation to efforts that advance a credible, well-defined religious-practice framework.
Building indigenous-reciprocity commitments into operations, not marketing. Reciprocity is easy to claim and harder to sustain. Our current focus is on making these commitments binding, measurable, and reported, not ceremonial.
Ceremonia's policy positions reflect our own views as an organization. Nothing on this page constitutes legal advice or represents the positions of any regulatory body, legal counsel, or advocacy coalition.
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