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.
Join us at the Psychedelic Liberty Summit as we bring together thought-leaders from across the globe to discuss the future of psychedelic liberty:
Presented by: Chacruna
Sponsored by MAPS, McAllister Garfield,...
The União do Vegetal, the most numerous ayahuasquira religion in Brazil, has recently entered an internal crisis because some of its most important members have adopted an anti-democratic Bolsonist political stance in favor of a coup d'état. This position motivated a reaction from the institution's own members, making this situation a good example of how politics and religion cannot be separated, and about the political and social dimensions of the use of plant medicines.
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...
Not much has been written about the practical and legal considerations for working with clients who utilize psychedelics, despite an increasing popular interest in...
The Indigenous Peyote Conservation Communication Committee wrote a letter to the psychedelic community regarding the inclusion of Peyote in decriminalization measures. This letter provides context, history, and details about Native Americans’ relationship with Peyote, the Native American Church, and NAC’s conservation efforts, and also includes suggestions of how psychedelic and decriminalization movements can be an ally to Native American communities.
As long-standing conference organizers in the psychedelic community, Chacruna and Horizons jointly propose these transparency guidelines during this crucial time in the psychedelic movement.
RESOLUTION NO. NS-29,623
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CRUZ DECLARING THAT THE INVESTIGATION AND ARREST OF INDIVIDUALS TWENTY-ONE (21)...
Public opinion matters; and, when it comes to mind-altering substances such as the Amazonian shamanic brew ayahuasca, moral panic matters. The “drugs” that act...