Health Canada dragging its feet on psilocybin, patients and advocates allege

Nathan Kruljac was a young man of 25 when he experienced some shortness of breath while out for a drive in Surrey, B.C. He went to a walk-in clinic. Minutes later, he was taken to hospital. After a week of tests doctors had a diagnosis: follicular non-Hodgkins lymphoma. While treatment eventually put the cancer into remission, Kruljac says he never truly recovered.  Fifteen years later, he still suffers from trauma and PTSD. “I still see [the cancer] as a time bomb rather than a success,” he said. “I’m scared and fearful of reoccurrence.”  Kruljac says conventional antidepressants and counselling only did so much…

Health Canada dragging its feet on psilocybin, patients and advocates allege Topshelf News.

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