Carly Nash
Mar 19, 2025
In March 2025, the UC Berkeley Clark Kerr campus hosted The Psychedelic Safety Summit. This unique event focused on creating an actionable public health plan, focused on psychedelic safety and was sponsored in part by a grant from the William G. Nash Foundation.
On March 19-21, 2025, the Psychedelic Safety Summit took place on the campus of UC Berkeley. The Psychedelic Safety Summit was held by the Psychedelic Safety Institute in partnership with the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. The Summit followed a non-traditional format; instead of focusing solely on raising awareness via speakers and panels, attendees actually participated in “facilitated discussions, working groups, and planning sessions” all centered on the end goal of creating a “concrete, five-year action plan” dedicated to improving psychedelic public safety.
Attendees of the summit ranged from non profit executives, to first responders, health care professionals, public educators, lawmakers, and beyond. Over the course of three days, these diverse experts analyzed research data and peer reviewed articles, participated in interviews, and compiled practical psychedelic support resources. To help make this critical and innovative work possible, the William G. Nash foundation provided a grant to the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics.
For more details about the Psychedelic Safety Summit, please click on this link. To learn more about the Psychedelic Safety Institute’s guiding principles and ongoing work, click here.
