Not a naive question: why would Canada (state) need to authorize patients to consume anything?<p>I get that substances are regulated but we already can get legal access to substances that we shouldn't consume too much or at all (ie. spirits, tobacco, sugar, salt, bleach...) so, why would dying patients (or anyone, really) not be allowed to consume regulated mushrooms?<p>I get that the real problem noted in this article is not on the right of the patient to consume, but the access to it - anyone distributing mushrooms to those patients need legal coverage to do so.<p>Still, I find it really hard to understand why (most, yet, not all) societies are so obsessed in regulating the access and consumptions of certains things while vast majority of unregulated things can and are as deadly as those regulated.