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.
Glauber Loures de Assis addresses the issue of conspirituality within the psychedelic renaissance and shows how these Western ideas have had an impact on the Global South. He offers ways to move forward that address these issues. He emphasizes the need to counter conspirituality's individualism in order to build a supportive and reciprocal psychedelic community going forward.
Monday, July 10th, 2023. From 6:00pm-9:00pm ET
Centered, PLLC 285 Nicoll Street New Haven, CT 06511
This is an event hosted by Bem-te-vi, Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative, Elm...
Transgender activist, Taylor Bolinger, reflects on her experience navigating the psychedelic community in Texas. Using Spinozan naturalism as a baseline, Bolinger discusses gendered embodiment and the significance of ritual.
Read Bia Labate's opening remarks for Psychedelic Science 2023 conference in Denver, Colorado, June 2023. She urges businesses, researchers, and clinicians to take reciprocity and community care seriously.
Sunday, July 23rd, 2023. From 5:00pm-9:00pm PST
Portal Community Center3051 Adeline St,Berkeley, CA 94703
This is an event hosted by Bem-te-vi, Chacruna Institute, San Francisco Psychedelic...
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
Register for this event here.
In the recent conversations surrounding the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics, addiction and recovery have been...
Psychedelic Science 2023June 21-23Denver, CO
At this year’s Psychedelic Science 2023 conference, Chacruna Institute is proud to offer various activities and spaces for the public...
Marcelo Leite highlights the broad spectrum of queer experiences, both positive and negative, represented at the Queering Psychedelics II conference held in San Francisco in April 2023.