Richard Glen Boire holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of California Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. He specializes in constitutional and criminal law, with a focus on the topics of extraordinary states of consciousness, dissident thinking, and shamanic inebriants.

From 1993 through 1999, Boire was publisher and editor of The Entheogen Law Reporter, a quarterly journal centered on control and policy issues issues surrounding visionary plants and drugs. In 1996 and 1997, Boire produced Copswatch--a free e-mail service that provided legal commentary on situations presented on the FOX Broadcasting Company's TV series COPS. In 1997, along with Jon Hanna and Will Beifuss, Boire co-produced the first Mind States conference, and he has spoken at events worldwide including Ayahuasca Healing Retreats and the Boom Festival in Brazil. From 1998 through 2002, he penned the column "Pharmaco Prohibita" for The Entheogen Review. He also filed the first-ever freedom of thought brief before the Supreme Court in 2002. From 1999 through 2004, Boire served as Executive Director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, a non-profit organization (originally named the Alchemind Society) that he founded which focused on "protecting and advancing freedom of thought in the modern world of accelerating neurotechnologies". In 2006, Boire helped organize the Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights conference at Stanford University's Law School. He has been interviewed on Coast to Coast by both Art Bell and George Noory.

Boire is the author of four books exploring the laws related to visionary plants and drugs. He has written numerous articles on the topic which have appeared in California Lawyer, Daily Journal, Eleusis, The Humanist, Independent Review, JAMA, Left Curve, The Resonance Project, and other publications.