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Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

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Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

#11
Magic mushrooms are now entering in the "gray zone" of legality in Canada. They are illegal, but there are online mushroom dispensaries in Canada that are blatantly selling them online as law enforcement is turning a blind eye to it.

A few weeks ago I ordered an ounce of shrooms online using a crypto-currency that has a smiling Japanese dog for a mascot. A week later it arrived in my mailbox without any issues. What a time to be alive.

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

#12

Good, I’m supportive. Even if you think psychs are not positive or moral, it’s pure bad faith to use that as a reason to exclude them from research. It’s mind boggling that amphetamines, benzos, etc have been common in clinical settings for years, but not organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia.

> organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia.

Why do you think that is relevant?

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

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post #12

Good, I’m supportive. Even if you think psychs are not positive or moral, it’s pure bad faith to use that as a reason to exclude them from research. It’s mind boggling that amphetamines, benzos, etc have been common in clinical settings for years, but not organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia.

> organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia. Why do you think that is relevant?

There is a long history of human consumption of some substances that far surpasses that of modern pharmaceuticals.

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

#14
post #12

Good, I’m supportive. Even if you think psychs are not positive or moral, it’s pure bad faith to use that as a reason to exclude them from research. It’s mind boggling that amphetamines, benzos, etc have been common in clinical settings for years, but not organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia.

> organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia. Why do you think that is relevant?

Co-evolution.

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

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post #11

Magic mushrooms are now entering in the "gray zone" of legality in Canada. They are illegal, but there are online mushroom dispensaries in Canada that are blatantly selling them online as law enforcement is turning a blind eye to it. A few weeks ago I ordered an ounce of shrooms online using a crypto-currency that has a smiling Japanese dog for a mascot. A week later it arrived in my mailbox without any issues. What…

I can anecdotally confirm; shrooms today feel about as legal as weed did ~10 years ago - nobody really cared unless you were a blatant dick about, and/or dealing it.

To go the extra mile with your example, there are several (grey market) "local delivery" cannabis dispensaries around me that will deliver in two hours or less. I've been seeing more and more of these services selling shrooms of all variety; chocolates, capsules, gummies, fresh, dried, you name it. If I were to order from the right place, I could have an ounce of weed and a quarter of shrooms at my doorstep in under 45 minutes. What a time to be alive indeed!

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

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post #11

Magic mushrooms are now entering in the "gray zone" of legality in Canada. They are illegal, but there are online mushroom dispensaries in Canada that are blatantly selling them online as law enforcement is turning a blind eye to it. A few weeks ago I ordered an ounce of shrooms online using a crypto-currency that has a smiling Japanese dog for a mascot. A week later it arrived in my mailbox without any issues. What…

There are a bunch of brick-and-mortar stores downtown Vancouver that plainly advertise that they are selling magic mushrooms. You can see the product through the window, there are big signs, the business names are super obvious, and they're in regular, well-frequented, non-sketchy neighbourhoods.

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

#17
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's strange, I thought they had to provide both in French and English? Nevertheless I found this: https://globalnews.ca/video/8497644/psychedelics-approved-fo... but it's not quite the same, heh. Just used Google to translate it (had to right click, and go to Translate)

Bilingualism in Canada is not about providing both languages automatically in all contexts. Radio-Canada and the CBC are two distinct public broadcasters under a shared corporate structure. So they have two websites, two networks of stations (TV and radio), and they share buildings where it makes sense, but a news article in French Radio-Canada will not mean the English CBC will even be interested to publish anything…

> but a news article in French Radio-Canada will not mean the English CBC will even be interested to publish anything on the subject.

Or that they wouldn't give it a different spin (remember, monolinguals can't fact check easily...)

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia. Why do you think that is relevant?

There is a long history of human consumption of some substances that far surpasses that of modern pharmaceuticals.

Like lead for instance?

Re: Health Canada authorizes psychedelic drugs for therapies

#19

Good, I’m supportive. Even if you think psychs are not positive or moral, it’s pure bad faith to use that as a reason to exclude them from research. It’s mind boggling that amphetamines, benzos, etc have been common in clinical settings for years, but not organic compounds derived from various fungal species (psilocybe and ergot) both of which have lived alongside us (or vice versa) for centuries if not millennia.

Good, yes. But something being "organic" / "natural" is just a generic content-free talking point to use whenever it fits your agenda. Like you wouldn't be supporting this if these compounds were useful but -gasp- synthetic.
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