Introduction The purpose of our response to the Delegate of the Secretary’s decision not to reschedule psilocybin under the Current Poisons Standard is to request further examination of regulatory models that currently exist in comparable countries. Our response, researched by top Canadian academics and experts in the Canadian psychedelics space…

(1) Webinar — The Psychedelic Stock Revolution: A bad trip, or big pay day? — YouTube

Ron Shore, PhD (A.B.D.), M.P.A., Queen’s University/University of Ottawa, Keren Gottfried, MA, University of Ottawa Contact: RS, 31rjs7@queensu.ca / rshore@uottawa.ca October 25, 2020 Prepared for the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Senate of Canada Submitted by Field Trip Health Inc. and Kydder Management Group Inc. Ronan…

Although few Canadians may have heard of Thomas Hartle, he recently made an historic contribution to end-of-life care in Canada. Mr. Hartle i​s the first palliative Canadian to ever receive an exemption to access psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to ease his end-of-life distress. In an August webinar hosted by national advocacy group…

On August 4, 2020, four terminally ill Canadians got the wish they were hoping for: an exemption from Canadian Minister of Health, Patty Hadju, to use psychedelic mushrooms as part of “psilocybin therapy” to help ease their end of life anxiety. Let that soak in for a second. Magic mushrooms…

By the time this blog was published (6:44pm, Aug 3), the embattled Ellen DeGeneres still had a job with NBC, although the sharks are circling and she’s all but stated that she’s done. Her show will be canceled in the next 48 hours. DeGeneres, whose net worth is a reported…

I admit, when I first learned of Numinus Wellness Inc. I balked at the idea of “evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapy.” It was too Scooby Doo for me —after all, I was the Debbie Downer in high school always turning away magic mushrooms and drops of LSD. But as I read more…

(Photo by the Toronto Star) They’re handsome, charming, intelligent, motivational, and they’ve hobnobbed and jolly-trotted with celebrities and international high society types for two decades. The crème de la crème if you will. Until two weeks ago, Marc (43) and Craig (37) Kielburger had been quietly amassing a measly $70…

We all remember the scene in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1995 action thriller, Outbreak, where unsuspecting patrons sitting in a movie theatre are exposed to an airborne fictional Ebola-like Motaba virus. It still creeps me out. When the threat of Covid-19 started shutting businesses down across the world in March, the most…