Coun. Pete Fry referred to motion as ‘anti-drug hysteria’ CBC News · Posted: Sep 12, 2019 10:13 AM PT | Last Updated: September 12, 2019 Vancouver city council struck down a motion Wednesday night to deter and prevent the sale of psilocybin mushrooms, a psychedelic drug also known as magic mushrooms. The motion from Coun. Melissa […]
Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms
The health professionals can use psilocybin themselves to begin to develop therapies Kate Dubinski · CBC News · Posted: Dec 10, 2020 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 10 Four months after it allowed a handful of palliative care patients to use psilocybin as a way to relieve end-of-life suffering, Health Canada has cleared the […]
Canada Is Allowing People With Depression to Do Psychedelic Mushrooms
A B.C. woman is believed to be the first non-palliative patient to be allowed to do shrooms legally. JS by John Semley Toronto, Canada Canada has granted a B.C. woman an exemption to use mushrooms to treat her depression. The Canadian government is allowing patients who are not terminally ill to legally consume psychedelic mushrooms, on the heels of […]
Patient hopes Canada will introduce regulations for psychotherapy with ‘magic mushrooms’
Psilocybin one of several psychedelics being given temporary legal exemptions to help ease emotional suffering Camille Bains · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 18, 2021 10:13 AM PT | Last Updated: January 18 As the first terminally ill cancer patient in Canada to legally use so-called magic mushrooms to treat anxiety, Thomas Hartle is hopeful that more temporary approvals from the federal […]
Canadian entrepreneur gifts $5 million to help create psychedelic research centre for mental health
TORONTO — Canadian tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Sanjay Singhal was in his early 30s when he was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It had been a lifelong struggle — one moment feeling great, then suddenly mentally paralyzed and unable to get out of bed for three straight days. “When I went manic, I would […]
‘People are desperate to heal’: The push for psychedelic-assisted therapy in Canada
By Kamyar Razavi & Robin Gill Global News Posted June 12, 2021 3:00 am Updated September 9, 2021 10:14 am Laurie Brooks describes her experience taking psychedelic mushrooms as a journey — one that helped her find answers to some of her most important life questions. The 54-year-old mother of four from Abbotsford, B.C., was diagnosed in 2018 with […]