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.
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research 2020
Friday, September 25th through Sunday, September 27th
A global virtual conference of leading experts in psychedelic research and therapy, psychiatry,...
Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research 2020
Friday, September 25th through Sunday, September 27th
A global virtual conference of leading experts in psychedelic research and therapy, psychiatry,...
Diversity, Equity, and Access in Psychedelic Medicine
Launch of the Journal of Psychedelic Studies Special Issue
February 19th, 20206:30-9:00 pmLocation: Brava Cabaret, 2773 24th Street, San FranciscoTickets...
Bioneers Conference Panel on Psychedelics
October 18-20, 2019
San Rafael, CA
Women, Diversity, and Sexual Minorities in the Psychedelic Community
Co-sponsored with The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant...
Panel: Reimagining Psychedelic Drugs as Medicines: Ethnography's Role in Assessing Ritualized Psychoactive Therapies
Organizers: Marc Blainey, Ph.D., and Bia Labate, Ph.D
Panel Abstract
Based on stories about traumas...
Psychedelics Research at the 2018 American Psychological Association Convention
Chacruna’s goal is to help advance the understanding of psychedelics and their therapeutic potentials in society,...