A Michigan court is upholding the constitutional right of an advocacy group to hold an event celebrating psychedelics in a common space at the University of Michigan this weekend.
The Student Association for Psychedelic Studies (SAPS) requested a permit to hold this Sunday’s Entheofest 2025 event on the campus “Diag” earlier this year, but the university denied it last month, arguing that the celebration promotes illicit drugs and that it would pose a “safety risk” for attendees.
A Michigan Court of Claims judge on Thursday rejected that justification for the permit denial, and it approved SAPS’s request for a preliminary injunction against the university on the grounds that prohibiting the event constituted a violation of the U.S. Constitution protecting free speech.
“The First Amendment is not without irony. Plaintiffs want to celebrate the local decriminalization of psilocybin on the iconic Diag of the University of Michigan, where thousands of speakers have spoken their words to hundreds of thousands of willing (if not always sympathetic) listeners,” Chief Judge Brock Swartzle said in an opinion. “But it is this very decriminalization at the local level that has purportedly neutered the University’s ability to keep the peace, imperiling the parties’ collective ability to
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