During Black History Month and beyond, MAPS celebrates and reflects on the many transformative contributions that Black people have made to the fields of psychedelic science, culture, and education.
In honor of Black History Month, MAPS has compiled a list of educational resources pertaining to justice, race, and equity in psychedelics. Acknowledging that we have a long way to go, we commit to doing the work for collective liberation.
MAPS Initiatives
- Statement of Solidarity: MAPS Stands Against Systemic Racism and for Justice and Healing
- Considerations for the Regulation and Decriminalization of Psychedelic Substances
- Overview: Policy and Advocacy
MAPS Articles
- Prioritizing Public Benefit Means Healing for All: Announcing MAPS’ Health Equity Plan
- MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color
- Carrying the Torch: Illuminating a Path Toward Healing Racial Trauma with MDMA-Assisted Therapy
- Psychedelic Legalization: An Opportunity to Change Our Perspective on Equity
- Race-Based Trauma: The Challenge and Promise of MDMA-Assisted Therapy
- R/evolutionary Medicine: Psychedelics, Trauma, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- The Politics of Research: Science’s Role in Ending the Drug War
- Black Masks, Rainbow Bodies: Psychedelics and Race
- Health Equity In Psychedelic Medicine: Advancing Practices for People of Color
- Drug Decriminalization: Breaking our Addiction to Criminal Punishments
- Psychedelics and the Trauma of Daily Injustice
MAPS Events
- Psychedelic Medicine & Cultural Trauma Workshop in Kentucky (August 10-11, 2019)
- MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color and Psychedelic Medicine and Cultural Trauma Community Workshop: 8-Day Conference
- Webinar: Psychedelic Support for BIPOC Communities
MAPS Videos
- Video Playlist: Psychedelic Medicine & Cultural Trauma Workshop in Kentucky
- Video: Mellody Hayes: New Narratives & Cultural Frameworks for Healing Trauma
MAPS in the Media
- Psychedelic medicine is going mainstream. Who will benefit?
- The First-Ever MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color Was Vital
MAPS Fundraising
Recommended Organizations
Recommended Videos
- What are psychedelic medicines and how can they help individuals and communities heal?
- Dismantling Patriarchy in Psychedelics
Recommended Articles
- How This Black-Led Psychedelic Collective Is Combining Anti-Racism With ‘Sacred Plant Medicine’
- The People of Color Psychedelic Society: Feminism and Psychedelics in One Group
- Meet the Woman Diversifying Psychedelic Culture
- The Burgeoning Psychedelics Movement Still Excludes Women and People of Color
- Rising Voices: Women of Color in the Sacred Plant Community
- How Indigenous & Black People are Fighting Colonialism in the Academy
- People of Color Psychedelic Coalition
- Psychedelic Clinical Science
- New Narratives with Psychedelic Medicine: An Interview with Mellody Hayes
- Inclusion & Diversity Archives
- People of Color Making a Difference in Psychedelic Healing
- Ensuring the psychedelic renaissance and radical healing reach the Black community: Commentary on Culture and Psychedelic Psychotherapy
- Culture and psychedelic psychotherapy: Ethnic and racial themes from three Black women therapists
- People of color in North America report improvements in racial trauma and mental health symptoms following psychedelic experiences
- Inclusion of people of color in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: a review of the literature
- People of color in North America report improvements in racial trauma and mental health symptoms following psychedelic experiences
- Prevalence, Risk, and Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Across Ethnic and Racial Minority Groups in the United States
- Race/ethnic differences in exposure to traumatic events, development of post-traumatic stress disorder, and treatment-seeking for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States
- Equity and Accessibility of MDMA-Assisted Therapy