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.
DECEMBER 8, 2020, COLOTLÁN, JALISCO.
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The Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta made up of the Traditional, Civil and...
In the 2020 election, we have witnessed major drug policy reform happen in states like Oregon which has voted in a psilocybin therapy model and broad drug decriminalization. What should Californian constituents consider for the future of psychedelic legislation? Ariel Clark argues that psychedelic legislation should begin with decriminalizing all drugs.
This article talks about the prevalence of psychedelic exceptionalism in activism groups, the need to decriminalize all drugs for social justice, and the benefits of implementing risk reduction practices in communities.
https://youtu.be/e1M_YFChzOA
A Critique of the DEA’s Authority over the Ceremonial Use of Controlled Substances
The plaintiffs’ organizations seek judicial relief from DEA prohibitions on controlled substances...
https://youtu.be/e3XW1vidbi0
Oakland has long been a leader in drug policy reform and activists in the City continue to expand concepts of what is possible in...
https://youtu.be/Wm490_NdDH4
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