Psychedelic Access Fund
Raising and distributing funds to reduce the cost barrier to legal psilocybin therapy access — scholarships for healing centers and grants for community harm reduction programs.
Type: Advocacy
Location: National
Membership: Donor and grant applicant membership
Venues: Grant-making nationally; virtual programming
Activities: Grant-making to reduce financial barriers to psilocybin therapy for underserved populations; scholarship programs for Oregon and Colorado healing center access; funding harm reduction and community support programs in low-income communities.
About
The Psychedelic Access Fund is a grant-making organization focused on reducing the financial barriers that prevent underserved populations from accessing legal psilocybin therapy. Oregon's Measure 109 service centers and Colorado's healing centers under the Natural Medicine Health Act provide legal access — but at prices ($1,500-$4,000+ per session) that are out of reach for most low-income residents.
The Fund raises money from donors, philanthropists, and psychedelic companies and distributes it as scholarships for individuals seeking healing center access and as grants to community organizations providing harm reduction and integration support in underserved communities. Priority populations include veterans, BIPOC communities, people in addiction recovery, and individuals with treatment-resistant mental health conditions.
The Fund works closely with service center operators in Oregon and Colorado to create subsidy programs that bring prices within reach for scholarship recipients — modeling the kind of access equity infrastructure that the field has repeatedly promised but struggled to deliver.
Why It Matters
The equity crisis in psychedelic therapy — where legal access costs thousands of dollars and is functionally available only to the affluent — undermines the social justice framing that most psychedelic advocates use. The Psychedelic Access Fund is one of the most direct institutional responses to that contradiction.
