Some doctors, therapists get Health Canada permission to use magic mushrooms

Are there accounts of what it&#x27;s like to use psilocybin in a clinical setting?<p>I&#x27;m imagining tripping in a therapist&#x27;s office. Doesn&#x27;t sound very pleasant.

&gt;allowing them to possess and use psilocybin for personal training without fear of prosecution under the country&#x27;s drug laws.<p>There are literally hundreds of websites that will mail you magic mushroom spores, live magic mushroom mycelium, magic mushroom growing kits where you just add water and wait, and dried magic mushrooms.<p>I have never heard of any of them so much as being hassled let alone prosecuted for selling any of those products.<p>It&#x27;s pretty safe to say magic mushrooms are quasi decriminalized in Canada right now.

Links involving MDMA, LSD, and shrooms often get upvoted to the top of HN. Is there anywhere to read the consensus on news, both legal and scientific, on what’s the current status of psychedelics and recreational drugs worldwide?

I did 3 sessions of MDMA therapy with a therapist in the underground community in Santa Cruz in the 90&#x27;s, which later became the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maps.org&#x2F;</a> who now work with veterans with PTSD. I had experience with psychedelics, but none with MDMA. All I can say is ymmv. I was underwhelmed by the experience. Later I would go on to do CBT, DBT and Wisemind, and CPT [1] for PTSD and those actually worked really well. I think MDMA combined with those therapies might have been even better. CPT was particularly helpful to confront the abuse I suffered. [1] Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy &amp; Wisemind, Cognitive Processing Therapy

I&#x27;m native indigenous from Oaxaca, Mexico, home of several sacred ceremonies with magic mushrooms and other plants from millennia. I&#x27;d like to share that our Native Nations do not give permission for scientific research of magic mushrooms outside our culture. This is not an egoistic stand, but it is for your own safety. Sacred plants on pharma and marketing industries hands will only create more damage than good. If you are interested to learn about sacred plants you must learn respect from native nations and come, live here and share for a time, then a request to research can be asked to the community.

The factors contributing to the rise of psychadelics are due to the &quot;push&quot; away from western practice of treating mental illness with books like &quot;Anatomy of an epidemic&quot; by Whitaker and screenings like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicatingnormal.com&#x2F;watch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medicatingnormal.com&#x2F;watch&#x2F;</a>.

I just hope the older generations who adamantly and mindlessly insisted that &quot;all drugs are bad&quot; live long enough to feel the deep shame they deserve for causing so much harm and preventing so much joy and much-needed help to so many millions and millions of people.