According to Vice, marijuana is not the only drug that has a campaign for medicinal use. A professor at the University of Victoria, Bruce Tobin, is “seeking medicinal access to the active ingredient in shrooms for end-of-life cancer patients.”
Medical marijuana is known for many curative properties, such as anxiety and pain relief. Shrooms would have similar results, but for patients that are struggling to grapple with their imminent death. There have been studies “that found a one-time psilocybin trip in a clinical setting can help relieve overwhelming existential distress,” like the distress of finding out you are dying.
Tobin was approached by a patient who wanted to test out a psilocybin trip; however, Canadian law inhibited Tobin from honoring this request. So, rather than “‘breaking the law'” or “‘ignor[ing] the suffering of [his patients],'” Tobin thought, “If [he didn’t] want to break the law, [he] better try to change the law.'”
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