Mushrooms before MAID: May calls for feds to prioritize research, access to psilocybin therapy

Green Leader Elizabeth May says she would feel more comfortable supporting the expansion of medically assisted death if the government was making an accelerated effort to develop alternatives.
Dr. Valorie Masuda, a palliative care physician, right, speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on Feb. 14 with Green Leader Elizabeth May to advocate for compassionate access to medical psilocybin for Canadians.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May wants Health Canada to expand access to medicinal psilocybin, the psychedelic substance found in “magic mushrooms,” before expanding medically assisted dying next year to those suffering only from a mental illness. 

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