"You better remember what I taught you!" yells the King. "You learned that clinical trials with psilocybin are almost exclusively funded by individual donors or private organizations like MAPS. Trials with psychedelics are very costly due to the licenses required for research on Schedule I drugs, which is why there so few modern research studies."
"I'm sure you can't forgot my violent order when you asked me for shrooms," explains the Queen. "But they are illegal! Psychedelics became Schedule I drugs in 1970 under the Controlled Substances Act which greatly limited their use in research. The scheduling of psychedelic drugs makes it very difficult to get approval and public funding for research, which means there are very few clinical trials and chances to receive psilocybin treatment in a medical setting. So, most likely the answer is no shrooms for you!"
"I hope you were paying attention," says the Caterpillar. "I explained the biology of psilocybin and told you about some clinical trial case studies. You learned that shrooms affect neurotransmitters and have the capacity to induce spiritual states which can greatly improve psychological well-being and leave many patients with an improved outlook on their diagnosis."
You follow the Chesire Cat from the Mad Shroom Party to the Queen's Trial.“Your journey through Shroomland has led you to the Trial, where you can explore psilocybin’s place in medicine today,” he says.
“After falling down the rabbit hole, you received a terminal-cancer diagnosis and experienced anxiety and depression. You tried the traditional treatments of SSRIs and SNRIs, but they did not help you. You decided to enter Shroomland to try psilocybin/shrooms, to treat your psychological distress.”
“You visited many characters on your journey and learned about the effects of psilocybin on cancer patients, as well as the steps it takes to obtain a psilocybin treatment. Let's see what they all have to say before we hear the verdict.”
Now that you've heard the testimonies, let's hear the Verdict!
The Queen's Trial
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