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.
Ibogaine, like other psychedelics, such as MDMA, ayahuasca, and psilocybin, has been shown to have important medicinal values. It is extracted from an African...
In this article, Marcelo Leite outlines the major developments in psychedelic science and markets going into 2024 that are causing industry trepidation. The biggest news of January comes from MAPS and its business division, which has been rebranded as Lykos Therapeutics.
January 9th – April 5th 2024, 10:30am-12pm PST/1:30pm-3pm EST
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In the midst of the current...
April 1st - July 8th 2024, 10:30am-12pm PST/1:30pm-3pm EST
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This course will be taught by leading...
July 2nd – October 15th, 2024, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
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The growth of quantitative ayahuasca research has failed to account for the essential impact of context on study participants. To address this issue, T.J. Wolfe and S. Ruffell, et.al. employed a heuristic study to further explore the phenomenology of the ayahuasca experience in a traditional setting.
September 30th - December 16th, 2024, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
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Chacruna Community Forum Special Series: The Reciprocity Dialogues
Chacruna Community Forum Special Series: The Reciprocity Dialogues is a series of conversations between non-profit organizers, legal...
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.
Articles in Chacruna's upcoming Global History of Psychedelics series will highlight the global dimensions and future possibilities of psychedelics. The series highlights chapters in the edited collection, Expanding Mindscapes (MIT Press), and will run weekly through March 2024.