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.
As psychedelics are quickly becoming implemented into the Western therapeutic medical model, ethical codes and boundaries are essential to ensure safe practices with these substances. An important topic when thinking about this is informed consent. What is the role of power dynamics in informed consent for psychedelic-assisted therapies and research? Can an explicit conversation of […]
We are excited to announce an in-person book launch for Chacruna’s new book Queering Psychedelics. The event will include a panel discussion with Dr. Bia Labate, Dr. Alex Belser, Dr. Clancy Cavnar, Ariel Vegosen and Behike Sensei Kevon Simpson where all of the speakers will talk about topics and issues addressed in the book. Afterwards, we will also […]
Class One - Introduction Professors: Dr. Bia Labate and Ligia Platero
Class Two - What good are psychedelic humanities? Professor: Nick Langliz
Class One - Introduction Professors: Dr. Ligia Platero
Class Three - Challenges in trial design for psychedelic-assisted therapies: reflections from two studies of psilocybin therapy for depression Professor: Jordan Sloshower
