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.
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Luisa Rebeca Gambier de Álvarez de Toledo was a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis in the 1950s in Argentina. Álvarez de Toledo particularly made a mark in LSD and ayahuasca research.
Ann Shulgin, one of the foremost thinkers and authors to have guided the current resurgence of interest in psychedelics, has died at the age of 91. We celebrate and remember her life. This is a French translation of the original obituary published in English in the Chacruna Chronicles.
Ann Shulgin, one of the foremost thinkers and authors to have guided the current resurgence of interest in psychedelics, has died at the age of 91. We celebrate and remember her life.
In this interview, Ibrahim Gabriell speaks with Dr. Anja Loizaga-Velder, one of the main experts in the therapeutic use of ayahuasca in Mexico. They discuss Loizaga-Velder's pathway into her profession, the challenges she has met along the way, and what western medicine can learn from traditional Indigenous knowledge.
Lola "La Chata," also known as María Dolores Estévez Zulueta, was the most famous heroin trafficker of the first half of the 20th Century. In this article, historian Nidia Olvera-Hernández uses sources from the Federal District Penitentiary and Mexico's General Archive to write a detailed portrait of La Chata's criminal career.