The Queering Psychedelics II program highlights queer visionaries, histories, and futures in the psychedelic community. The conference will take place April 22 and 23rd, and registration is open now.

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 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.

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...

April 22 and 23, 2023 Brava Theater Center2781 24th St.San Francisco, CA 94110 Register Here Press Release This 2-day conference is part of Chacruna’s Women, Gender Diversity, and...

Editors: Alex Belser, Ph.D.; Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D.; Bia Labate, Ph.D. As the psychedelic resurgence reaches a pivotal moment of mainstream interest and regulatory legitimacy, Queering...

Brazilian religions with Indigenous and African roots such as Catimbó and Jurema Sagrada, centered around the sacred plant jurema-preta (Mimosa tenuiflora), have survived in the Northeastern region, in spite of repression by Catholic institutions and the police. In recent decades, they also became a point of interest for neoshamans in urban contexts.