MAPS

MAPS works towards a post-prohibition world by advancing research, changing policies, and shaping culture.

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Since our founding in 1986, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has been the leading organization building the movement to foster evidence-based approaches to psychedelics and the people who use them. When used safely and responsibly, psychedelics have the potential to promote personal growth and well-being and treat various mental health conditions. Three pillars guide our efforts: advancing research, changing policies, and shaping culture.

Advancing Research

MAPS spent decades developing MDMA-assisted therapy for the clinical utilization of psychedelic-assisted therapies. With the road paved for the next generation of research and drug development, MAPS now stewards the research landscape we helped cultivate.

We are dedicated to fostering new research directions that prioritize public benefit, supporting international researchers and pilot programs, and ensuring the accessibility and culturally appropriate integration of psychedelics as a tool for individual and community wellness. We center research that contributes to knowledge in the public domain.

Changing Policy

The cultivation, use, and trade of psychoactive substances — including psychedelics — has been a consistent aspect of human history, but prohibition, criminalization, and militarization — and their inherent oppression — have led to drastic consequences. The ongoing, global War on Drugs has been justified by bad science, racism, and fear for too long: it has led to mass incarceration; erosion of civil liberties; ecological damage; economic waste; and the public health polycrisis of adulteration, poisoning, and overdose. Many of these harmful effects have disproportionately impacted the most historically exploited and oppressed communities. Consequently, we believe societies worldwide have an obligation to account for and repair those harms, to the extent possible.

MAPS envisions a post-prohibition future based on Consciousness, not Criminalization.

Shaping Culture

For psychedelics to be most safely integrated into society, we need to be honest about the implications. MAPS recognizes the importance of a comprehensive understanding of their risks and potential benefits, teaching people how to navigate altered states of consciousness and how policies impact individuals and communities.

We create cutting-edge education for professionals and the public, provide expert support for the psychedelic and drug policy movement, and convene people who share our vision—all to lay the groundwork and create the guardrails necessary for responsible social transformation.

As psychedelics become more mainstream and an increasing number of people seek to use them for healing and personal growth, we are more dedicated than ever to making resources available for people and communities to safely and responsibly integrate psychedelics into medical, legal, and spiritual contexts.

San Jose, CA
Mid-sized organization
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 59-2751953

Fundraisers

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Fundraiser by Miriam Guetta

Cocktails and Conversations- Launch and Press Release

All funds raised at this dinner, will go directly to benefit MAPS and the future of psychedelics in mental health. Please use this page to donate. To attend the fundraiser event, please rsvp here: https://bit.ly/Psychedelicevent Curated Mental Health is pleased to announce the future of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy! Please join us in celebrating the launch of a growing network of offices bringing psychedelic assisted psychotherapy to all patients who need this treatment, regardless of payer. Barriers to accessing some of the most powerful treatments known have long kept many of the patients who most need these treatments from being able to obtain them. Please join us in announcing our new practice, dedicated to solving this problem and bringing cutting edge treatment to all those who need it. Our event is geared toward sharing our innovative treatment approaches, and our plans to make these accessible to all patients with our colleagues, the press, and the community at large. The future of mental health is here! 7:30 PM- Registration / Meet and Greet 8:00 PM- Words of Introduction and Mission Statement - Dr. Amanda Itzkoff, CEO 8:15 PM-Psychedelics: Brain Mechanisms- Dr. Robin Carhartt-Harris Keynote Speaker 8:45 PM- Q & A Session with Dr. Carhartt-Harris Dinner to benefit MAPS
Raised
$740
Next milestone
$750

Donors

  • Hugo Contreras

    Founder of a startup direct-to-consumer brand that is focused on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and entheogenic plants. We're dedicated to donating a percentage of our profits to help bring mental healing to the masses. @paraisoc...

  • Kurt Melancon

    Psychedelics have been the most important experiences of my life and have changed the way I look at everything. I want to support others and hold space for them as they delve deeper into their own paths. Psychedelics are the truth serum f...

  • Susan Griffith

    Plant medicine offers true healing, with sustained benefits for so many diseases and mental health challenges.