Julie Barron
Founder, Michigan Psychedelic Society (MPS); Co-Founder, Entheofest
The woman who started it all in Michigan — founder of MPS and Entheofest, the primary contact for psychedelic community-building in the state.
Biography
Julie Barron founded the Michigan Psychedelic Society (MPS) and is the founding force behind Entheofest, the Ann Arbor festival celebrating the city's decriminalization resolution. Barron is the woman who started it all in Michigan — the primary contact and connective figure for anyone looking to build psychedelic community, programming, or policy work in the state.
Her organizational work has tied together the academic resources at the University of Michigan (where George A. Mashour, MD founded the Michigan Psychedelic Center), the local advocacy work of Decriminalize Nature Michigan, and the broader cultural community that needed an institutional home. The annual Entheofest gathering on the U-M campus has become a marker of how far Michigan's psychedelic culture has institutionalized.
Organizations
Why They Matter to the LearnShrooms Community
Michigan's status as the 'Decrim Capital of the Midwest' rests on a network of overlapping organizations — and Barron is the connective figure tying them together. If you want to build anything psychedelic in Michigan, she is the first call.
Legal Context
For the legal landscape where Julie Barron operates, see psilocybin laws in Michigan.