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The Fireside Project helps guide people through bad trips for free.

Peer support line helped 16 “bad trippers” avoid the emergency room

The Fireside Project, which helps guide people through their psychedelic experiences, finds success in its first month.
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Urgency of Community Aid in the Mental Health Crisis

Pema Sheth is a shamanic practitioner who offers healing circles in Oakland to heal ailments such as PTSD, addiction, and depression. For 20 years,...
Anthropologist questions psychedelic sector on Indigenous exclusion

Psychedelic Renaissance: Anthropologist Questions Psychedelic Sector on Indigenous Exclusion

Marcelo Leite highlights statements made by anthropologist Bia Labate in her opening remarks for Psychedelic Science 2023 that address the problem of Indigenous exclusion at the conference and within the broader Western psychedelic community.
Academic Programs for Psychedelics Are Growing

Academic Programs for Psychedelics Are Growing

Studies in Psychedelic Justice, a new program offered by Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, begins May 3 with the first of three courses (and a one-time workshop) designed to fill what Chacruna identifies as a void in the psychedelic space.

Remembering an Ayahuasca Hero: Domingos Bernardo (1941-2020)

On August 17, 2020, Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi da Silva Sá moved on to the spiritual plane. It is safe to say that the entire...

New Plant Medicine Healing Alliance Launches: Aims to Decriminalize Plant and...

On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd from 10:30am - 11am (PT), leaders of a new coalition, Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, will be hosting a press conference to speak upon their “dual mission of improving access to plant medicines while simultaneously promoting sustainable sourcing and respect for the human, plant, and animal ecologies where the medicine grows.” They will speak about the Indigenous history of sacred plant medicines, the medical perspective of the therapeutic potential of these substances to help people heal from PTSD, especially veterans, and they will ask the Portland City Council to decriminalize these plant and fungi medicines to allow for spiritual growth and access to the treatment that people need.
Chacruna Files Amicus Brief in Support of Iowaska Church of Healing

Chacruna Institute Files Amicus Brief in Support of Sacramental Churches’ Rights...

The Chacruna Institute and Sacred Plant Alliance filed this amicus brief on October 17, 2023 in support of the plaintiff church in the Iowaska Church of Healing v. United States case, to emphasize to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit why the decision in the lower court, the district court, was wrongly decided.
Chacruna endorses the Breakthrough Therapies Act

The Chacruna Institute Endorses the Breakthrough Therapies Act

The Chacruna Institute endorses the Breakthrough Therapies Act introduced by Senators Cory Booker and Rand Paul. Chacruna supports this opportunity to reduce barriers to MDMA and psilocybin-assisted therapy.
the triumphant comeback of psychedelics

The Triumphant Comeback of Psychedelics

Psychedelic Science 2023 brought together 12,000 registrants in Denver, Colorado, four times as many people as the previous conference in 2017, crowning the movement to rehabilitate psychedelics for therapeutic use against depression and other disorders. Science unveils unsuspected mechanisms of brain reconfiguration and ends decades of research bans imposed by the war on drugs, but serious obstacles remain to be overcome.

Please Support Psychedelic Decriminalization in Oakland

We are sharing here a message from our friends in Decriminalize Nature Oakland: “We need your support! Our friends in Oakland are working with Councilmember Gallo’s...
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