Thomas Hartle was among the first Canadians to get a federal exemption to use psilocybin to treat symptoms of his stage-four colon cancer, but he says the legal supply of the drug has been “shut off” even as an illegal market booms.
An exemption is one of few ways to get the drug legally – otherwise, patients need their doctor to request it for a specific use or they need to be enrolled in a clinical trial. But it is easily found online or at a growing number of shops openly selling magic mushrooms in cities including Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa.
Hartle and other advocates have filed a legal challenge that calls on the federal government to regulate psilocybin so patients seeking it out for medical use can do so legally.
Please don't. Nobody in government knows how to handle psychedelics, looks how they mangled the legal cannabis rollout..keep it grey zoned
It's psilocin/psilocybin/magic mushrooms—not carfentanil. The government should fuck off and mind their own business (which they mostly are at this point, to be fair). A legal prodrug to psilocin like 4-AcO-DMT can be a better option as it permits more accurate dosing.