Psilocybin Therapy at End of Life with Kathryn Tucker, JD | End of Life University Podcast

My guest Kathryn Tucker is a Special Counsel at Emerge Law Group where she co-chairs the Psychedelic Practice Group. She is also the Executive Director of the End-of-Life Liberty Project and served two decades as Director of Advocacy and Legal Affairs for Compassion & Choices, working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life. She shares the current legal case she is spearheading to allow terminally ill patients to try psilocybin as a palliative care medication and how psilocybin has already been shown to be hugely beneficial to patients at the end of life. Learn more about her work at:
https://www.emergelawgroup.com/

This episode includes:
🍃 The benefits of psilocybin therapy for palliative care
🍂 Why terminally ill patients cannot currently access psilocybin therapy
🍃 What are Right to Try (RTT) laws and how they may apply to psilocybin
🍂 History behind psilocybin being labeled a Schedule I drug by the DEA
🍃 Test case that has been filed in court based on Washington state and 🍂 Federal RTT laws
🍃 How “friends of the court” can be helpful to this case
🍂 Why the success of this case could open access for patients in other states
🍃 Oregon’s Psilocybin Therapy Law and implications for other states


Links mentioned in this episode:
🍃 Interview with Ira Byock about psilocybin: https://eolupodcast.com/2020/11/16/ep...
🍂 Seattle Times Article about Right To Try: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...
🍃 Book: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan: https://amzn.to/3eHnOqz
🍂 Book: The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattin: https://amzn.to/38JtlZM
🍃 Right to Try Psilocybin Advocacy Fund – donation page: https://www.thenowaksociety.org/projects

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