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.
Cultivating Roots for Cultural Change
The Bay Area’s Annual Spring Conference on Plant Medicines & Psychedelic Science
April 27th and 28th, 2024
Brava Theater Center2781 24th St.San...
Psychedelic Science 2023 brought together 12,000 registrants in Denver, Colorado, four times as many people as the previous conference in 2017, crowning the movement to rehabilitate psychedelics for therapeutic use against depression and other disorders. Science unveils unsuspected mechanisms of brain reconfiguration and ends decades of research bans imposed by the war on drugs, but serious obstacles remain to be overcome.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST
Register for this event here.
Colorado’s Proposition 122 passed in November of 2022 and, signed into law by Colorado Governor...
August 8th – November 21st 2023, 10:30am-12pm PDT/1pm-3pm EST
Price $1,100
Price $560 for CE credits
This course will be composed of a series of independent lectures...
May 22nd – August 21st 2023, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST
Price $700
Price $300 for CE credits
This course will be taught by leading experts in the field...
Founder and Executive Director
Bia Labate – Co-Founder and Executive Director
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco....
In a survey published in 2021, Brazil ranked third place in recent high-impact biomedical studies with psychedelics, mainly because of ayahuasca research initiated in the 1990s. However, clinical experimenters and humanities scholars still go their separate ways, without much cross-pollination between the two fields. They are in a unique position, though, to join forces and go beyond the narrow medicalization paradigm underpinning the psychedelic renaissance.
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, in partnership with the University of Ottawa, School of Psychology, is offering a spring course, Diversity, Culture and Social Justice in Psychedelics, part of its Psychedelic Justice Curriculum. Over nine sessions beginning February 6, participants will gain a deep understanding of historical context, contemporary topics, and future opportunities within the psychedelic world.
Join leading psychedelic researchers and experts for a 16-week, live, virtual course, "Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Production in Psychedelic Science." Enjoy graduate-level education for a fraction of the price.
January 24th – May 9th 2023, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST
Price $1,100 USD
Price $560 for CE credits
In the midst of the current “renaissance” in psychedelic research,...