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....

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST Register for this event here. This event is a partnership between Chacruna and Sociedade Brasileira de Genética Regional Leste. This community...

In France, Santo Daime and other ayahuasca groups and practitioners are accused of illicit drug trafficking and brainwashing. This demonization of ayahuasca use leads to individuals being imprisoned for their religious beliefs and is a violation of their human rights.

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.

A Canadian company, Filament Health, plans to develop ayahuasca pills. These pills promise to provide a standardized ayahuasca experience, but what does the commodification of ayahuasca mean for ethical consumption. Indigenous peoples with cultural and spiritual connections to ayahuasca need to be given the opportunity to provide full consent.

Monday, February 27th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PST Register for this event here. The use of ayahuasca, an indigenous brew from the Amazonian basin with psychedelic properties, has...

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,...

Chacruna celebrates Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA), a historic step in the decriminalization of psychedelic medicines. NMHA decriminalizes personal use, possession, cultivation, and adult sharing of five psychedelics.

February 6th – April 10th 2023, 10am-12pm PST/1pm-3pm EST Price $450 USD Price $280 for CE credits This course is a partnership between Chacruna and University of...

In November 2022, Colorado will vote on the Natural Medicine Health Act, also known as Proposition 122. If passed, this act will legalize possession of psilocybin, ibogaine, DMT, and mescaline. In this article, Martha Hartney provides five key points of commentary on this proposed law.