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.
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Introduction to Lophophora
williamsii (peyote)
Peyote
is a small, psychoactive cactus that grows in Mexico and small part of Texas, in
the USA. It grows in the Chihuahuan...
Decriminalize Nature:
DN believes entheogens refer to sacred natural ethnobotanicals, which are often erroneously labeled as “drugs” while in fact distinct and unrelated to “drugs”....
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,...
This declaration was produced at the end of the conference Drogas, Política y Cultura: Perspectivas Brasil-México (Drugs, Politics and Culture: Brazil-Mexico Perspectives), held in...
There are hundreds of groups using ayahuasca in ceremonial underground contexts in the United States. They all dream of future legalization and the ability...
An
anthropologist, a lawyer, and a neuroscientist’s response to Michael Pollan
In an opinion
piece to the New York Times commenting on Denver’s recent
historic vote to decriminalize psilocybin,...