Film explores B.C. woman’s experience with magic mushrooms to ease cancer anxiety
Laurie Brooks never thought she’d one day use magic mushrooms and advocate for the ability of others to do the same.
“Dosed,” directed by Nicholas Meyers and Tyler Chandler, was set to open Friday in Toronto before heading to cities including Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Halifax, Hamilton and Calgary.It comes amid court challenge filed against the federal government last July by seven patients and a health-care worker.
Brooks, who was diagnosed in 2018, was one of the first people in Canada to be given a personal exemption while she was having chemotherapy. “Why would you not want to help somebody? It took one experience, six hours, and that’s all I needed to make a difference,” she says of her first psilocybin trip.
Anxiety about death is typically treated with antidepressants, but Brooks did not consider that route due to potential side-effects. She says psilocybin offered more immediate relief. “I personally know of many people who have had very beneficial experiences in the hands of trained therapists, with a number of psychedelics, including psilocybin,” Maté said in an interview.
Health Canada said it has greenlit two proposed trials testing psilocybin-assisted therapy for end-of-life distress — one by a non-profit British Columbia program called Roots to Thrive, and another involving the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
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