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.

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...

The Fireside Project, which helps guide people through their psychedelic experiences, finds success in its first month.

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.

On August 17, 2020, Domingos Bernardo Gialluisi da Silva Sá moved on to the spiritual plane. It is safe to say that the entire...

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...

Pema Sheth is a shamanic practitioner who offers healing circles in Oakland to heal ailments such as PTSD, addiction, and depression. For 20 years,...