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.
PRESS RELEASE
“Arizona Psychedelics - First Annual Conference to be held in February 2019”
A recent Phase II clinical trial evaluated
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for...
Tuesday, August 24th, 7:00–9:00pm PST
Join the Portland Psychedelic Society on August 24th to learn about the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, a policy initiative building...
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.
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...
Chacruna Institute is seeking a Courses Coordinator to oversee the organization’s offering of
courses, trainings and workshops. This is a part-time, remote position with a commitment of 4-6 hours per day from Monday to Friday. We are looking for candidates from the US, with preference for California, ideally located in the Bay Area.
Psychedelic Support brings together a Network of therapists, counselors, holistic doctors, MDs, and integration consultants to offer services (online and in-person) for psychedelic/plant medicine...
The final day of Psychedelic Science 2023 focused on celebrating the accomplishments of psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. During this celebration, Indigenous voices challenged the commodification of science in psychedelic spaces through commentary & protest, leading to reactions from some leaders in the psychedelic community, including Rick Doblin and Chacruna's Bia Labate.
Introduction
On Sunday, June 23, I attended the first “Ayahuasca Symposium” in London, UK, on behalf of Chacruna, a partner to the event. The event,...
Chacruna celebrates Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA), a historic step in the decriminalization of psychedelic medicines. NMHA decriminalizes personal use, possession, cultivation, and adult sharing of five psychedelics.