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On this week\\u2019s episode, we\\u2019re chatting all about the changing rules involving psychedelics and other controlled substances, featuring lawyer and leading expert, David Wood. Topics: Alberta\'s regulation of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy; healthcare practitioners\' access to psychedelics; Canada\'s Special Access Program; and our Ask-Me-Anything Program. This program contains 30 minutes of substantive content for the Law Society of Ontario\'s CPD requirements.

\\u26ab How will Alberta\'s decision to regulate psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy meaningfully impact accessibility? (10:30)
\\u26ab What options are available to healthcare practitioners who want to consume psychedelics in the course of their own professional training (21:00)
\\u26ab How can Canada\'s "Special Access Program" make controlled substances more available for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions?\\xa0 (30:44)
\\u26ab Our Ask-Me-Anything segment, featuring questions submitted by patrons of the Lawyered community (38:40)
\\U0001f535 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? (39:20)
\\U0001f535 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? (42:42)
\\U0001f535 Do you think that psychedelic guides should be subject to professional regulation analogous to other health professionals? (46:34)
\\U0001f535 Some commentators have suggested that requiring psychedelics to be administered only by a psychiatrist follows a Western medicalized structure. Are there other valid approaches - Indigenous, religious - that could be left behind? (48:47)

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