Policy & Advocacy

Policy

It’s time to move on from the war on drugs and create real change through cannabis and psychedelic policy reform at the local, state, and federal level. Our Policy & Advocacy Team works to create nonpartisan policies that decriminalize and regulate substances within evidence-based, equitable, and compassionate frameworks—medical and otherwise—so everyone can benefit from the safe and intentional use of psychedelic substances.

Advocacy

Individual therapy alone cannot solve the systemic issues that often cause trauma. That’s why our Policy & Advocacy Team has had a strong, continued focus on systemic change, advocating for decriminalization of drugs in a framework of social and racial equity. Our efforts support comprehensive harm and risk reduction, including honest and culturally-relevant drug education, legal and accessible substance analysis, peer support, and accessible services for mental health and integration.

Movement Building

Our work doesn’t end within our walls. We partner with like-minded organizations around the world to develop research projects, events, campaigns, networks, and actions based in healing and justice. Highlights include:

• Co-founding Catharsis on the Mall, a free annual Burning Man-inspired event formed as a vigil for the war on drugs
• Producing the Psychedelic Medicine and Cultural Trauma workshop on the intersection of psychedelics and cultural and racial trauma in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2019
• Co-developing a study evaluating psychedelics as a tool for healing intergenerational trauma among Palestinians and Israelis.