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title: 'Do you Believe in Magic (Mushrooms)?'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/do-you-believe-in-magic-mushrooms'
show: 'Sicker Than Your Average Health Show'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/sicker-than-your-average-health-show'
published: '2021-01-07'
audio: 'https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/f4269069-d197-44f3-8b9f-ab0272004e61/episodes/852c8aee-7e27-45ac-9c55-aa6bd772caa1/audio/6a427a05-7cf9-4b74-b888-b2287b882543/default_tc.mp3'
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# Do you Believe in Magic (Mushrooms)?

Is your doctor going to be tripping on mushrooms? Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) brings you our third episode! Josh & Preet look at the latest developments that may possibly make "magic mushrooms" available in Canada, before comparing and contrasting legalization when it comes to psilocybin versus cannabis. Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and tell you…

## Summary

Is your doctor going to be tripping on mushrooms? Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) brings you our third episode! Josh & Preet look at the latest developments that may possibly make _magic mushrooms_ available in Canada, before comparing and contrasting legalization when it comes to psilocybin versus cannabis.

Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and tell you more about the ones you don’t.

**Credits**

Editor: Mack Britton

Logo design: Brad Hart

Music: I Got a Funky Feeling by Calmer Palmer thanks to RitualMusic.com

**Links**

- [https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/canadas-health-minister-says-health-care-professionals-can-consume-magic-mushrooms.html](https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/canadas-health-minister-says-health-care-professionals-can-consume-magic-mushrooms.html)

- [](https://youtu.be/XBEas8MGzd0)

- [https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/10/Health-Canada-Removes-Barrier-Psilocybin/](https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/10/Health-Canada-Removes-Barrier-Psilocybin/)

- [https://merryjane.com/news/17-canadian-mental-health-professionals-are-now-allowed-to-trip-on-shrooms-for-work](https://merryjane.com/news/17-canadian-mental-health-professionals-are-now-allowed-to-trip-on-shrooms-for-work)

- [https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/controlled-illegal-drugs/magic-mushrooms.html](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/controlled-illegal-drugs/magic-mushrooms.html)

- [https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adw4w/canada-is-allowing-people-with-depression-to-do-psychedelic-mushrooms](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adw4w/canada-is-allowing-people-with-depression-to-do-psychedelic-mushrooms)

- [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/magic-mushrooms-trip-through-the-science/id1051557000?i=1000502003842](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/magic-mushrooms-trip-through-the-science/id1051557000?i=1000502003842)

- [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article/00002-eng.htm](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article/00002-eng.htm)

- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710088/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710088/)

- [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485)

- [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/science-history-psychedelic-therapy-feel-good-friday/id1034035933?i=1000496600895](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/science-history-psychedelic-therapy-feel-good-friday/id1034035933?i=1000496600895)

- [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/)

- [https://therapsil.ca/bibliography/](https://therapsil.ca/bibliography/)

- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy: A Review of a Novel Treatment for Psychiatric Disorders by Kelan Thomas, Benjamin Malcolm & Dan Lastra in journal of psychoactive drugs Available at: [https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320734](https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320734)

- Potential Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin by Matthew W. Johnson & Roland R. Griffiths in Neurotherapeutics (2017)

- The 21st century psychedelic renaissance: heroic steps forward on the back of an elephant by Ben Sessa in Psychopharmacology (2018)

- Psychedelic Psychiatry’s Brave New World by David Nutt, David Erritzoe, and Robin Carhart-Harris in Cell (2020) Available at: [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.020](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.020)