Psychedelics such as magic mushrooms are having a moment. Can science keep up?
“But the dose that people are using is very inaccurate – both for psilocybin-containing mushrooms and for LSD, because those are substances that people obtain on the black market.”
Then five years ago, he was in a “near-fatal” accident. He lost his leg and received more than 30 upper body fractures as a result, he says. But in 1970, when the U.S. outlawed psychedelic drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, the drugs, Dyck says, became associated with the counterculture.Experiments continued into the 1970s in Canada and the U.S., but the drugs now carried a stigma that ultimately, came to be a death knell for psychedelic research.
Since then, there has been a groundswell of support for psychedelic research, and governments, including Canada, have taken notice. Moss says the company grows more than 70 different strains of psilocybin-containing mushrooms but makes its capsules of a single strain they’ve grown to meet specific perametres.
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