Taking the mystery out of taking psychedelics.

The Psychedelic Knapsack has everything you need to pack (and unpack) before, during, and after going on a trip.

Down-to-earth psychedelic harm reduction

We believe in the transformative potential of psychedelics and plant medicines for personal and collective healing, but we have also witnessed the damage that can occur when proper safety principles, ethical practices, and logical reasoning aren’t employed.

It’s easy to set aside our good reasoning when it comes to something so shrouded in mystery as these substances. This mystery also makes it easier to be manipulated, misled, or taken advantage of.

It’s our mission to drastically reduce harmful outcomes in psychedelic spaces and plant medicine circles with simple, easy-to-understand information and practical tools for the psychedelic curious, the dabblers, and even for the avid explorers.

Supporting therapuetic outcomes.

More than anything we believe in the transformative power of a friend along the path who can offer some helpful, current, and relevant information so that people can stay safe and nurture therapuetically beneficial experiences.

Harm reduction is about looking out for each others safety, and recognizing that people will make their own decisions.

It is also about empowering that decision making with useful information.

Good information helps people make good decisions, stay out of danger, and helps all of us head in the direction of our best possible outcomes.

FAQs

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  • Psychedelic Knapsack is a harm reduction education company founded by traditionally trained western Ayahuasca facilitators, who have identified common pain points and major risk factors participants face and, as a result are dedicated to reducing harm and harmful outcomes in Ayahuasca and psychedelic ceremonies and communities around the globe.

    The name ‘Psychedelic Knapsack’ draws inspiration from an ancient legend in psychedelic lore. If you know, you know.

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  • Psychedelic harm reduction involves strategies and practices aimed at minimizing the potential risks and negative effects associated with psychedelic use, while maximizing safety and positive outcomes. This includes education on safe usage, understanding substances and dosages, creating supportive environments, and providing resources and skillsets for integration to assist in building beneficial relationships with psychedelic substances.

  • At Psychedelic Knapsack, we keep our values front and center. We value radical inclusion and individual autonomy. We respect the wisdom and power of psychedelic and plant medicine substances, and we honour the wisdom and knowledge of indigenous peoples who have used entheogenic substances for time immemorial.

    Read more about our values here.