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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This is the speech address given by Thomas Eckert for the Horizons conference in New York City in 2021. He speaks on Measure 109, his participation on the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board, and his late wife Sheri Eckert who was also an advocate and inspiration in the fight to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in Oregon.
Almost 200 million Americans live in states where medical marijuana is legally available; 60 million live in states where all prohibitions on adult use...
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Petitions, Resolutions, and Regulations for Decriminalization of Entheogens and Psychoactive Substances in the US
This is a library of legal texts including petitions, resolutions, and...
DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT AND RECOVERY ACT
Whereas, Oregonians need adequate access to drug addiction treatment. Oregon
ranks nearly last out of the 50 states in access...
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...
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