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.
We, representatives of the
Indigenous Peoples of the Juruá, Envira and Tarauacá—Ashaninka, Huni Kuin,
Madija, Kuntanawa, Nawa, Noke Koi, Nukini, Puyanawa, Shanenawa, Yawanawá and
Shawãdawa—assembled at the...
Psychedelic Markets of the Future
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María Sabina, the curandera who revealed the psychedelic mushroom to the Western world, ultimately died in poverty.
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Recent fallout from a YouTuber's infiltration of a Santo Daime group in Spain has brought to the forefront the need to destigmatize ayahuasca use. In response, scholars, researchers, NGOs, and members of ayahuasca groups have united to fight for the religious freedom of the use of ayahuasca. This call, signed by members of the psychedelic community, outlines the situation and steps that need to be taken to honour religious and ethnic minorities' use of ayahuasca and other psychedelic medicines.
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