On a sparse stretch of Vancouver’s East Hastings Street, the Coca Leaf Cafe & Mushroom Dispensary stands out. Its front window displays menus with legally dubious offerings: microdoses of magic mushrooms (psilocybin and psilocin), shroom tea, DMT vape pen cartridges and gummies, peyote and kratom.

Buy psychedelics online canada are drugs that have perception-altering effects and can cause altered thinking, increased anxiety and visions. They are commonly viewed as recreational drugs, but they have been used medicinally for centuries to treat various ailments and stimulate spiritual growth. Today, a number of researchers and companies are trying to bring psilocybin back into mainstream medical practice.

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The psychedelics industry is still nascent, and it’s not yet clear how big it will become or what its ultimate impact might be. But it’s clear that the drug is generating significant interest. “This is not an underground phenomenon anymore,” says Balazs Szigeti, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London. “People are now running legitimate businesses that sell this stuff.”

In Canada, possession and sale of psilocybin is illegal under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. However, a minister can grant an exemption to use restricted substances for medicinal purposes. Those exemptions have mostly been granted for ayahuasca, but one was granted last year to allow Farb’s team to study the effects of psilocybin on low-grade anxiety and depression. The first controlled study of its kind in Canada. It will involve 100 people over five weeks to see if a single psilocybin dose can reduce symptoms of these mental conditions.