Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is a registered California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 84-3076078). We are a community-oriented organization run by a small staff of experts and enthusiastic volunteers who work to bring education and cultural understanding about psychedelic plant medicines to a wider audience. We promote a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science and envisage a world where plant medicines and other psychedelics are preserved, protected, and valued as part of our cultural identity and integrated into our social, legal, and health care systems.
Help us to achieve our mission! From our beginnings in 2017, we have stood apart from other psychedelic education and advocacy organizations by pioneering initiatives that support and provide a platform for diverse voices, including women, queer people, people of color, Indigenous people, and the Global South. In efforts to address the lack of diverse representation in the expanding psychedelic landscape, we centered our mission around the empowerment of marginalized voices to foster cultural and political reflections on topics like race, gender, and sexuality in psychedelic science. We believe now more than ever, given the current social and political climate, our work is critical to the future of psychedelic healing for humanity.
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One of the psychoactive mushrooms described by Gordon Wasson in LIFE magazine (1957) is today an endangered species. This article describes how mycologists located the fungus Conocybe siligeneoides in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca (Mexico).
As Oregon furthers the process of Psilocybin use under Measure 109, there have been a lot of concerns and criticisms surrounding the framework of this act. This article addresses many of those concerns and specifies proposed precautions the framework will take in order to ensure accessibility and safety.
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Introduction to Lophophora
williamsii (peyote)
Peyote
is a small, psychoactive cactus that grows in Mexico and small part of Texas, in
the USA. It grows in the Chihuahuan...
It has come to our attention that quite a few people have recently received packages with notices from Homeland Security informing them that contraband...
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines & Hoots, A. (2021). Guide to RFRA and Best Practices for Psychedelic Plant Medicine Churches. San Francisco, CA: Chacruna...
DECEMBER 8, 2020, COLOTLÁN, JALISCO.
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The Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta made up of the Traditional, Civil and...