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COVID-19: Some turning to psychedelic micro-dosing to cope with mental health stress, anxiety
Posted January 31, 2021 11:48 am
By Fakiha Baig
“There’s so many people who were struggling and having a hard time with it. But I felt great,” the 30-year-old biology student says from her home in Edmonton.
The reason, says Burke, is psychedelic drugs, which she has been micro-dosing along with about two dozen other members of the Edmonton Hiking and Psychedelic Society.
As facilitator of the group, Burke says she has seen an increasing number of participants in online monthly group discussions about the psychoactive or hallucinogenic drugs.
... It’s illegal to possess, obtain or produce psychedelics without a prescription or licence in Canada. But Burke says group members get them through the black market and use test kits to identify any suspicious substances.
The stress of COVID-19 may be contributing to a boom in psychedelic consumption because of the mental health crisis the pandemic has created.
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