A plan that regulators announced last month will allow patients in Australia legal access to the psychoactive drugs MDMA and psilocybin. Patients will be charged thousands to access the treatment, as there is no source approved for the drug. The Therapeutic Goods Administration, Australia’s medical and therapeutic regulatory agency, , announced last month that licensed…
Canadian advocates for medical use of psilocybin mushroom have launched a petition asking the federal government to act. Psilocybin assisted therapy is gaining popularity to treat anxiety and depression at the end of life, as well as PTSD. Petition was launched March 16. It is an online “Petition To the Government of Canada” that will…
On March 7, four legislators declared that they had resubmitted their bill on psychedelic treatment. Rep. Nancy Mace (Rep. Madeleine Dean, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Rand Paul presented the Breakthrough Therapies Act. This updated bill would amend the Controlled Substances Act and allow medical patients to have access to MDMA or psilocybin. Breakthrough therapies…
