History of LSD in Canada by Ian Mitchell

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Ian Mitchell

Background:

After completing a bachelors degree in Pharmacology at UBC, I completed a medical degree at McGill, followed by specialty training in emergency medicine at McMaster University. I spent 8 years working at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver serving a population heavily compromised by psychiatric and substance abuse problems.

Staff Emergency Medicine Physician, Royal Inland Hospital
Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Site Scholar for Kamloops Family Medicine Resident Program

First aid volunteer at Burning Man

www.clinicalcannabisincontext.tumblr.com

History of LSD in Canada

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Canadian Psychedelic Association

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Canada and the History of LSD

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Ian Mitchell

MD, CM, FRCP (Emergency Medicine)

I am happy to have helped Royal Inland Hospital to become the first in the country to administer opiate overdose kits to patients who have been admitted with an opiate overdose.

http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1387013/researchers-calls-for-broader-nal...

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Associate Professor UBC Dept of Emergency Medicine
Cannabis clinician and researcher
Board member of Ketamine Assisted Therapy Association of Canada

Dr. Humphrey Osmond

http://blog.nfb.ca/blog/tag/humphrey-osmond/

London

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Dr. Osmond moved to Saskatchewan, land of Tommy Douglas and revolutionary changes in health care. New ideas were being tolerated. LSD was freely available to scientists at the time and Osmond and his colleagues experimented with alcoholics, having remarkable success.

http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200

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Psychedelic Era

Among other things he gave mescaline to Aldous Huxley, which inspired him to write the Doors of Perception

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http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3296

Even Dan Rather took heroin for a story. http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-rather-tells-us-about-the-time-he-used-h...

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http://mentalfloss.com/article/81622/canadas-trippy-history-lsd-therapy

Even Tommy Douglas, the Premier of Saskatchewan, endorsed LSD treatment for alcoholism

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LSD & Alcohol

Adrenaline was produced during the DTs. This was the thought behind using mescaline.

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Vancouver

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The Hollywood Hospital in New Westminster. Where celebrities came for LSD treatment up until 1975

https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2010/09/

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Casa Mia

Home of Dr. J. Ross Maclean

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Won't somebody think of the children?

Sun blindness
Suicide
Chromosomal abnormalities
Psychosis
BC

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Won't somebody think of the children?

Sun blindness
Suicide
Chromosomal abnormalities
Psychosis
BC - Informer Law

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Prohibition of LSD

Under pressure from the Senate led by Senator Hartland Molson of the Molson Brewery family, physicians yielded to the recommendations of policymakers.
Suffice to say, the leading
therapeutic application was using LSD to treat alcoholism, and Senator Molson pushed the law forward, while the brewing industry enjoyed regulations
that helped bring beer to market. E. Dyck, CMAJ 187(14)

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Future Research

use of placebo
prolonged duration of effect
changing perception of drugs

https://www.straight.com/life/1026441/vancouver-forges-new-paths-revival-ps...

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Thoughts?

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drivmitchell@gmail.com
@travels2little

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The song "Come Together" was originally a campaign song for Timothy Leary for his run as governor against Ronald Reagan
https://gizmodo.com/john-lennon-wrote-come-together-for-timothy-leary-but-1...

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