“They’ve got an option,” Hawkswell says. “Create regulations or take dying patients to court. You know, which one of those futures should we be living in?”

“Minister, I also qualify for MAID [medical assistance in dying],” he wrote in one letter. “Perhaps we should weigh the two applications simultaneously? I am not quite sure how it is that I might be able to access medical assistance in dying but not psilocybin, but I am ready to go above and beyond simple requests and include court action.” So far Nathan has only received what appear to be boilerplate responses — not from the minister but the department — that his application is still “under review.”

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The fight for medical use of magic mushrooms is moving to the courts
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