Co-Founder Church of Psilomethoxin. Entheogenic Intellectual Property Attorney advising holy sacrament churches and psychedelic biotech patenting. Served as Chairman of the Board, ED and GC for 501c3's.

Ian Benouis is a West Point graduate, former Blackhawk helicopter pilot, US Army officer and combat veteran who participated in Operation Just Cause in the Republic of Panama. This operation was the largest combat operation in US history focused directly on the War on Drugs. Ian grew up in Hawai’i in the 1970’s where cannabis was decriminalized and fully integrated in to the culture. He has been healing himself for over 25 years with earth medicines, a spiritual practice, and being a student and practitioner of ethnobotany. Ian was a pharmaceutical representative for Pfizer after he got out of the Army. He is a casualty of the drug war having been arrested for cannabis while in law school. Ian is an intellectual property attorney who has been working in the corporate world for over 20 years in the primary roles of VP of Sales and Marketing and General Counsel. He is a political activist in the cannabis and natural earth medicine space nationally and locally in Texas. Ian is part of a number of non-profit organizations dedicated to healing veterans who have PTSD with cannabis and other sacred plant medicines. He has also been the Chairman of the Board for a public policy foundation in Texas for over seven years. Ian was featured in the Spike Jonze produced episode Stoned Vets on Weediquette the new cannabis focused series on Viceland on HBO with a number of other veterans protesting the VA’s policy on medical cannabis and trying to end the veteran suicide epidemic. He also took six veterans with PTSD to Peru in May for a 10-day plant diet including ayahuasca and other plant medicines with three Shipibo shaman brothers that are third generation plant medicine healers. This experience was captured on video was released as a documentary in March 2017 entitled Soldiers of the Vine.