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.
The International Symposium on Psilocybin: Therapeutic Potentials, Culture, and Decolonization, September 20-21, 2021 | A Two-Day Bilingual Virtual Conference Featuring Indigenous, Mexican, and Colombian...
On August 25, 2021, California Senate Bill 519 (SB519) was paused in the CA State Assembly Appropriations Committee. Being the first and most expansive...
On August 20, 2021, the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is hosting an interactive workshop “Implicit Bias, Therapy, and Psychedelics: Reducing the Impact...
Website Launch
The psychedelic community has an urgent opportunity to support Indigenous groups and the traditional ecological knowledge they practice. According to Bia Labate, Ph.D., Chacruna’s Executive...
Global Virtual Psychedelic Summit
April 23-25, 2021
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Featuring 80+ speakers–including Indigenous leaders from throughout North, Central and South America, as well as researchers, practitioners, community...
April 25-26, 2020
70+ psychedelic visionaries, researchers, healers, veterans and Indigenous knowledge holders will present three simultaneous tracks of talks and breakout sessions to...
We’re now almost two decades into the
Psychedelic Renaissance, with clinical trials investigating psychedelics for a
number of therapeutic applications at leading universities. There has been
little...
Chacruna, the Drugs, Politics and Culture Collective, and Western-CIESAS have organized the Sacred Plants Forum: Uses and Norms, which will take place on November...
Photo, from left to right: Ram Dass, Alfred Matthew Hubbard, Aldous Huxley, Albert Hofmann, Ralph Metzner, Sasha Shulgin, Amanda Feilding, and Maria Sabina.
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Drogas, política y cultura. Perspectivas Brasil-México. Para nosotros es de suma importancia contar con una voz analítica como la suya, que pueda concentrar y...