89: Psychedelics Law (David Wood)

On this week’s episode, we’re chatting all about the changing rules involving psychedelics and other controlled substances, featuring lawyer and leading expert, David Wood. Topics: Alberta's regulation of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy; healthcare practitioners' access to psychedelics; Canada's Special Access Program; and our Ask-Me-Anything Program. This program contains 30 minutes of substantive content for the Law Society of Ontario's CPD requirements.

⚫ How will Alberta's decision to regulate psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy meaningfully impact accessibility? (10:30)
⚫ What options are available to healthcare practitioners who want to consume psychedelics in the course of their own professional training (21:00)
⚫ How can Canada's "Special Access Program" make controlled substances more available for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions?  (30:44)
⚫ Our Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (38:40)
🔵 What is legal regarding psychedelics? What legal considerations are there for arranging psychedelics as a tool for therapy and are there different considerations across provinces? (39:20)
🔵 What do you make of the mushroom commercial retail shops that are popping up across Canada? How does this compare to the rise of cannabis retail shops that occurred pre-legalization? (42:42)
🔵 Do you think that psychedelic guides should be subject to professional regulation analogous to other health professionals? (46:34)
🔵 Some commentators have suggested that requiring psychedelics to be administered only by a psychiatrist follows a Western medicalized structure. Are there other valid approaches - Indigenous, religious - that could be left behind? (48:47)

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