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.
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.
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...
Saturday, September 30th, 2023. From 12:00pm-1:30pm PDT
Virtual Fundraising Event
Register here.Price: $25 per virtual ticket
Chacruna is happy to announce an opportunity to sit down and...
October, 16th and 17th, 2023. From 7:00pm-9:00pm EDT
Matka456 Johnson AveBrooklyn NY, 11206
This is an event hosted by Brooklyn Psychedelic Society and Chacruna Institute
Monday 16th,...
The Chacruna Institute is committed to providing a platform for Indigenous voices in the Psychedelic Renaissance. This guide to Chacruna's Indigenous resources is meant to provide an easy reference for those wishing to learn from Indigenous knowledge keepers and experts on the topic of psychedelics.
Thursday, September 21st from 9am-12pm PDT
Cost: $150
Cost: $40 for CE credits
Register here.
Scholarship Application
This workshop will challenge participants to take Indigenous claims on plant medicines seriously,...
Registration is now open for Chacruna's new lecture series that highlights topics from shamanism to commodification. The course will begin on August 8th and run until November 21st. Focusing on a decolonial approach, course participants will learn from a a variety of experts in the field of psychedelic studies.
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.
The final day of Psychedelic Science 2023 focused on celebrating the accomplishments of psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. During this celebration, Indigenous voices challenged the commodification of science in psychedelic spaces through commentary & protest, leading to reactions from some leaders in the psychedelic community, including Rick Doblin and Chacruna's Bia Labate.
Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 from 12:00-1:30pm PDT
Register for free here.
Join the Chacruna Community for an update on the Church of the Eagle and the Condor...