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.
Psychedelic Markets of the Future
Discussions of legalizing psychedelics to date consist of more questions than answers. The medical model is insufficient but there have...
Academics, researchers, NGOs, humanitarian and development agencies, the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization (OMPI), students, workers and the international civil society.
We are...
The concept of “set and setting” has been a guiding principle of psychedelic researchers, therapists, and explorers since it was first outlined by Timothy...
This article explains Measure 109 and the structure that is being molded to ensure the safe use of psilocybin by adults in Oregon. Though the use of psilocybin is often associated with mental health and psychedelic-assisted therapy, Oregon will be using a method called “supported adult use” which is very different from therapy. This article explains the differences.
Politics and Religious Freedom Restoration Act Make Strange Bedfellows: The Sessions Memo by Charles Carreon is a thought provoking and somewhat edgy essay about...
These documents show exchanges between members of the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition (VMHLC) and government groups which discuss the support of the Right to Try Clarification Act and the possibility of establishing an inter-agency taskforce on the proper use and deployment of psychedelic medicine and therapy for addressing the current mental health crisis among veterans and the public.
There has been a boom in interest in psychedelics, though many people, including licensed providers (LPs), are unfamiliar with the applicable laws and gray...
In light of recent claims made by Decriminalize Nature (DN), the Cactus Conservation Instititute (CCI) would like to clarify that they as an organization are not aligned with DN or any other political organizations. The links to the articles and claims referred to can be accessed in this note.
California Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative 2020
SECTION 1. Title.
This measure shall be known and may be cited as the “California Psilocybin Decriminalization Initiative”.
SEC. 2. Findings...