Psilocybin
Project Solace: Provincial Funding Plan for Psilocybin Dear TheraPsil members and supporters. I am inviting you to join in a crucial endeavour that aims to transform lives across Canada. TheraPsil is embarking on a Canada-wide lobbying campaign and our mission is to secure provincial funding for Project Solace, which will bring psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to countless … Read more
Psychiatrist Cheryl Willsie spent nearly a week in Hamilton learning how to walk a patient through an experience on psychedelic drugs. She and two other healthcare professionals learned how to prepare a patient for a therapy session where they take psilocybin – the psychedelic compound in so-called magic mushrooms. Willsie also learned how to support … Read more
From: TheraPsil, Victoria, BC Via Email: hcminister.ministresc@hc-sc.gc.ca CC: mark.holland@parl.gc.ca To: Honourable Minister of Health Mark Holland Minister of Health, MP for Ajax, House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario KIA OA6 Medical Access to Psilocybin Dear Honourable Minister, Congratulations on your new appointment as Minister of Health. This position is a great honour and comes … Read more
FunGuyz sells magic mushrooms out of their storefront which has already been raided by police once. “We’re clearly pro legalization,” co-owner Edgars Gorbans told CTV News Windsor Tuesday in an interview. “We just hope that having these stores [open] will draw some attention to the topic of psilocybin and the problems that are involved in … Read more
Two London, Ont. healthcare workers are supporting legal efforts to allow doctors, therapists and patients to use magic mushrooms, or psilocybin, for medical needs, stressing the urgency to change the system. A charter challenge was launched in July 2022 by five Canadians, some of whom are terminally ill, to rewrite the laws around medical psilocybin … Read more
The active component in magic mushrooms helped give Janis Hughes, 66, a new outlook on life as she prepares for death — a benefit the Stage 4 breast cancer patient wants others who are suffering to experience in a safe way. Psilocybin eased the weight of depression and anxiety the Winnipeg woman faced after receiving … Read more
Janis Hughes was sunk in front of her large-screen television, watching Netflix, trying to zone out and forget about her day. And the day before. And the day before that. Not easy to do when you know you are dying. Hughes was a decade into breast cancer that kept coming back, worse each time, like … Read more
Laurie Brooks never thought she’d one day use magic mushrooms and advocate for the ability of others to do the same. The 55-year-old B.C. resident also never imagined having colon cancer and fearing the impact her imminent death would have on her husband and four children. Her journey as a believer in the power of … Read more
A bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers filed a bill this week to clarify that federal “Right to Try” (RTT) laws give seriously ill patients access to Schedule I drugs, including marijuana and psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA. While the bipartisan measure would make a technical amendment to the text of existing law, the primary purpose … Read more
Canada violated the rights of hundreds of patients awaiting access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy when it rejected applications from health-care professionals to consume the restricted drug for training purposes, a lawyer for the workers argued in Federal Court on Tuesday. But Health Canada argued it hasn’t seen evidence that therapists ingesting the psychedelic trains them to … Read more
From a global perspective, Canada has always been on the leading edge of health care policy. With the introduction of medical assistance in dying laws in 2016 and the legalization of cannabis in 2018, we continue to make progress. But there’s one area in which our federal government’s delay has recently come into sharp focus: … Read more
Thomas Hartle’s quality of life drastically changed when he started taking psilocybin, known as magic mushrooms. Hartle lives with terminal colon cancer. He has more than 40 tumours in his abdomen, that cannot be operated on. In 2020, Health Canada granted Hartle an exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to use psilocybin therapy … Read more
IN JANUARY OF 2022, Janis Hughes was told she had two years to live. After two prior bouts of cancer, she was now told she had stage 4 breast cancer, which had already spread to her sternum, ribs, and right lung. The news devastated her, making her feel “a great weight” pressing on her chest, … Read more
There’s no hiding what’s being sold inside Shroomyz Dispensary in downtown Toronto. A giant rainbow mushroom covers the windows, with a sign below inviting customers to “walk into a new reality.” The shop is one of three locations the company has in Ontario, and there are plans to expand further. “We are operating a medical … Read more
Canadian non-profit organization TheraPsil is leading a delegation of patients, advocates & experts to return to Ottawa this February from the 11th-17th seeking compassionate access to psilocybin for Canadian adults suffering from palliative depression, addiction, PTSD and chronic disease. Attendees will be lobbying in the spirit of love, with a focus on Indigenous sovereignty, reconnection … Read more
If you hadn’t noticed psilocybin’s move toward the mainstream, a company like Numinus will come as a surprise. Led by founder and CEO Payton Nyquvest, Numinus is a brand-fantasy of the next iteration of wellness: clean, straightforward, empathetic, inclusive and self-aware. It’s one of several Canadian companies—Field Trip Health and Wellness among them—ready to capitalize … Read more
Overwhelmed by applications from thousands of Canadians seeking access to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for conditions like end-of-life distress and depression, and with very few professionals trained in how to administer the therapy, TheraPsil was prepared to educate up to 500 specialists over the next year. Other organizations, such as Alberta-based ATMA Journey Centers and B.C.-based Numinus … Read more