Last month, the UK House of Commons debated the current state of regulatory and legal hurdles negatively affecting the development of psilocybin-based (the psychedelic compound most commonly found in ‘magic mushrooms’) therapies for mental and physical health disorders in the UK. The debate resulted from an e-petition, which garnered 11,824 votes in February this year. The debate saw a consensus among Members of Parliament across party lines, collectively supporting the proposal for rescheduling psilocybin from the currently held Schedule 1…

We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of our Global Medical Cannabis Dashboard, a new interactive tool covering cannabis regulatory regimes in 112 countries (and counting) across the world. We reached out to our global network of healthcare regulatory specialist lawyers across 39 Baker McKenzie offices and 70+ of our correspondent firms and asked them to share their knowledge on this subject. Our resulting dashboard is unique in its scope and stretch and we invite you to explore it…