Psilocybin treatment for cancer patients rejected by court
A Seattle doctor lost his legal bid to use psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to treat terminally ill cancer patients under a… ruling by the country’s largest federal appeals court.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration acted within its authority in barring Sunil Aggarwal from prescribing the psychedelic, a three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. The agency provided sufficient reasons for why it would not grant Aggarwal a legal waiver to use the drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which lists psilocybin under the highly restrictive schedule I…
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Psilocybin treatment for cancer patients rejected by court
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