Thank you.
The use of psychedelics in the States has now been termed “groundbreaking”. These are groundbreaking interventions.
It's not just about the medicine. It's about giving the medicine in the context of therapy. This is about using psychedelic-trained physicians and therapists. This is groundbreaking. This is a way where, for patients who are stuck in a certain thought pattern and behaviour pattern, we give them a psychedelic and it opens their brain, so that now we can establish new patterns of thought and behaviour. This is a groundbreaking type of intervention, and this is where I think we need to move forward in allowing it for patients with substance use disorders or chronic depression and anxiety.
Where we think there is no treatment, I believe there is a treatment, and we should look at allowing this to be accessible to all Canadians.