I can speak to the higher-level aspects of this. It is not my intention to discredit anecdotal experience. That's not what research does. Psilocybin is something that might be beneficial to some people.
The state of the research is that there are various levels of clinical trials that are under way, some within Canada and more in Australia and the United States as well.
The effectiveness of any kind of therapeutic intervention is one piece of it. There are also challenges with implementation that we have to understand from a health care system perspective, and then we also have to understand those pieces where it can do harm. There is some research out there that suggests suicide might be a side effect. Now, I'm not saying that's strong; I don't know of that research specifically, but it is mentioned. There are things that have the potential to do harm as well, like any life-saving medicine, so we have to balance the overall picture of what is beneficial versus what could be harmful as well.
Research is clearly under way, and there is a lot of work in that area. There may be potential for that in the future.
