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.
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 from 12-1:30pm PST
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Chacruna Institute recently filed an amicus brief defending the rights of psychedelic churches under the...
July 15th – September 23rd, 2024, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
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Price $700 USD
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Psychedelics have encompassed a colorful...
September 30th - December 16th, 2024, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
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From their experience as a psychedelic mother and father, Jacqueline Alves Rodrigues and Glauber Loures de Assis share 10 topics on psychedelic parenthood that deserve more attention. The topics address issues of gender, diversity, and Indigenous traditions. Ultimately, they argue that working to include families in psychedelic spaces will strengthen the psychedelic community.
The Chacruna Institute and Sacred Plant Alliance filed this amicus brief on October 17, 2023 in support of the plaintiff church in the Iowaska Church of Healing v. United States case, to emphasize to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit why the decision in the lower court, the district court, was wrongly decided.
Chacruna Institute and Sacred Plant Alliance have filed an amicus brief in support of Iowaska Church of Healing in their suit against the Internal Revenue Service. They are nonprofit organizations providing research, education, and advocacy regarding the rights of churches like Plaintiff-Appellant to practice their sincere beliefs under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”).
Our new Chacruna series will highlight the global history of psychedelics. It will highlight some of the dynamic ways that historic traditions, cultures, and research spaces have contributed to the field of psychedelics, as well as raise questions about whose knowledge and expertise has been centered through time.
October, 18th, 2023. From 6:00pm-9:00pm PDT
Portal Community Center3051 Adeline St.Berkeley, CA 94703
This is an event hosted by Chacruna Institute, San Francisco Psychedelic Society and...
A new resource from Chacruna provides a platform for Indigenous perspectives on psychedelics, compiling years of talks and presentations. Since it was founded, Chacruna Institute has centered Indigenous perspectives, recognizing their vital importance to the history and future of the psychedelic movement.