Tue Mar 22, 2022 – 8:01 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Health Canada now allows medical professionals to apply for an “exemption” that enables them to treat patients with illegal psychedelic drugs.
In 2020, Health Canada launched a program under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) that allowed patients to request treatment with psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic mushrooms.” In January, the program was changed, allowing the medical professionals themselves to apply for the Special Access Program (SAP) to obtain psylocibin to “treat” patients.
According to proponents of psilocybin “treatment,” the hallucinogenic drug is useful in treating “end-of-life distress” in terminally-ill patients as well as having possible use in the treatment of mental health disorders such as “anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and problematic substance use.”
While admitting that “there are no approved therapeutic products containing psilocybin in Canada or elsewhere,” the Government of Canada’s website explains that “Health Canada has issued some subsection 56(1) exemptions under the CDSA to individuals to possess and use mushrooms containing psilocybin.”
The government also lists some of the possible side effects of taking psilocybin, which include distorting their sense of reality (they see and hear things that are not
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