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.
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...
On Earth Day, Thursday, April 22nd from 10:30am - 11am (PT), leaders of a new coalition, Plant Medicine Healing Alliance, will be hosting a press conference to speak upon their “dual mission of improving access to plant medicines while simultaneously promoting sustainable sourcing and respect for the human, plant, and animal ecologies where the medicine grows.” They will speak about the Indigenous history of sacred plant medicines, the medical perspective of the therapeutic potential of these substances to help people heal from PTSD, especially veterans, and they will ask the Portland City Council to decriminalize these plant and fungi medicines to allow for spiritual growth and access to the treatment that people need.
https://youtu.be/WQShK9fij8c
At 9 a.m. on August 17, 2020, the ayahuasca community said goodbye to one of its most important and discreet champions: the Brazilian lawyer...
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am asking for help, urgently, with this letter. It has three parts: (1) background, (2) donation links, (3) petition links. Read all, or jump...
What
began as a casual conversation between two friends last summer has now
developed into an unstoppable global healing movement.
David
Grillot and Jonathan Glazer realised the importance...
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,...