Ask-Me-Anything: Psychedelics Law

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">In our Ask-Me-Anything Segment of our psychedelics law episode with David Wood<span style= "color: #22242f; background: white;">, we cover a range of questions submitted by the Lawyered Patreon community.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> 🔵</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> 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?<br /></span><span style= "font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">🔵</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> 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?<br /></span><span style= "font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">🔵</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> Do you think that psychedelic guides should be subject to professional regulation analogous to other health professionals? <br /></span><span style= "font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">🔵</span> <span style= "font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> Some commentators have suggested that requiring psychedelics to be administered only by a psychiatrist follows a Western medicalized structure. Are there other va