Zide Door Fellowship of Entheogenic Plants

Zide Door is a religious organization in Oakland that offers entheogenic mushrooms to members as a sacrament under religious freedom protections. Founded by Dave Hodges, Zide Door operates in the legal space created by Oakland's decriminalization of entheogenic plants (Resolution 2019) combined with First Amendment religious freedom protections. The organization has faced legal challenges that have clarified and tested the limits of religious use protections in California. Members attend services and may receive psilocybin mushrooms as part of religious practice. The organization maintains that its use is genuinely religious — rooted in animist and plant medicine spirituality — rather than a legal workaround. Zide Door is one of the most visible examples of the religious exemption model for psychedelic access in the US, and its legal battles have produced case law relevant to other religious organizations seeking similar exemptions.