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.
A Canadian company, Filament Health, plans to develop ayahuasca pills. These pills promise to provide a standardized ayahuasca experience, but what does the commodification of ayahuasca mean for ethical consumption. Indigenous peoples with cultural and spiritual connections to ayahuasca need to be given the opportunity to provide full consent.
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.
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.
WHO WE ARE:
The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization co-founded by Brazilian anthropologist Dr. Bia Labate and American psychologist...
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.
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.
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...
Webinar May 25th, 20214:30-6:00 PST
Registrations close at noon PST on May 25th
IPCI will answer questions about the delicate ecological status of Peyote and how...