…rescheduling psilocybin
Citing the medical benefits of psilocybin, nine U.S. cities and the State of Oregon have decriminalized or legalized psilocybin… In Oregon, the Research Subcommittee of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board, composed of physicians, biologists and public health officials, analyzed the research and concluded that “high quality phase [I and II] clinical trials suggest that psilocybin is efficacious in reducing depression and anxiety, including in life-threatening conditions.” One recent phase II trial, discussed in the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrated that two doses of psilocybin administered three weeks apart treated depression as effectively as six weeks of daily escitalopram, a common SSRI.
Substances can be rescheduled through three legal pathways. The first is legislative. Congress could reschedule psilocybin by amending the CSA. The second rescheduling pathway is administrative. The CSA gives the federal attorney general power to schedule and reschedule substances or remove them from the controlled substances list. That power is typically delegated to the DEA. President… could sign an executive order compelling the DEA to reschedule psilocybin… members of the public, and government officials, could petition the DEA to act… the third pathway to rescheduling is judicial, which involves suing the DEA after it denies a scheduling petition.
Original Article (Scientific American):
A strategy for rescheduling psilocybin
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