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.
Please become a member so that you are able to help Chacruna, yourself, and the world. Support of any amount helps this cause and allows us to provide psychedelic education to anyone who wants to access it.
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Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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This event is a partnership between Chacruna and Sociedade Brasileira de Genética Regional Leste.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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As the benefits of psychedelics’ for the treatment of mental health disorders are continuously studied,...
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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In current conversations surrounding psychedelics, we often see a heavy focus on science in exploring...
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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As the psychedelic movement rapidly grows within the mainstream sphere, we can see many startups,...
Wednesday, January 18th, 202312:00-1:30pm PST | 1:00-2:30pm MST | 3:00-4:30pm EST
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Monday, February 27th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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The use of ayahuasca, an indigenous brew from the Amazonian basin with psychedelic properties, has...
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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As we look at the various plant medicines that can offer health and healing benefits,...
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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Ed Prideaux is a UK-based journalist and Master's student in Psychology who works with the...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
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In this conversation, medical anthropologists Marty Otañez, PhD and Stacey McKenna, PhD share what critical...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 from 12:00-1:30pm PST | 3:00-4:30pm EST
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This event is a partnership between the Project on...