In Canada, psychedelics re-emerge in treatment of depression yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The group also has connected patients to doctors and therapists who oversee their use of the drug.
These trial cases come amid mounting interest from researchers and investors, as well as a public push to reconsider bans on psilocybin, LSD, DMT, mescaline and other mind-altering substances such as MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy.
The US state of Oregon legalized psilocybin for therapeutic use last November.
Psychedelics have been used by indigenous peoples for millennia, but Western researchers only started delving into their properties and potential uses in earnest in the middle of last century.
But that work came grinding to a halt when the substances quickly became symbols of the anti-establishment counter-culture movement of the 1960s and were banned.
To manage her stress and fears, Andrea Bird, who has terminal cancer, uses psychedelics, which are seeing a sudden re-emergence in Canada as a possible treatment for mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. The 60-year-old Canadian was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012. Despite aggressive treatment, the disease returned five years later, spreading to her lungs, bones and brain. As she tries to cope with her incurable ailment, Bird uses psilocybin, the psychoactive substance of hallucinogenic mushrooms that was banned in the 1970s.
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A mugshot of William Leonard Pickard
On November 6, 2000, Kansas Highway Patrolmen pulled over a rented Buick LeSabre on what seemed like a routine traffic stop. That was until the driver, 58-year-old William Leonard Pickard, bolted from the scene on foot, escaping into the woods of rural Kansas. Searching the Buick, the police found, among other seemingly incriminating literature, a government-issued guide on controlled substances and a brochure titled “How to Escape Federal Prison Camp.” More crucially, in a Ryder van accompanying the rented LeSabre, the cops found a packed-up LSD lab.
Posted on December 20, 2020.
This Thursday, Dec. 3, American hospitals broke a sad record. One hundred thousand people were being treated for COVID-19, of which 29,000 patients were in intensive care. That same day, more than 210,000 new cases were recorded in the United States a frightening level of contamination. Donald Trump will not talk about these records. The future ex-president of the United States has never mentioned these numbers except to minimize them. He is not about to change his strategy in his last weeks in power.
Since the beginning of the year, the country has lost 280,000 of its citizens to the pandemic. To put things in perspective, the percentage of the population who have died (0.08%) is actually that same as that of France or Brazil. It is less than that of Spain, Italy or the United Kingdom (0.09%), according to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, which has become, thanks to its mastery of algorithms, the global source for real time monitoring of the v