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compound in magic mushrooms.

Kroeger senses society shifting in favour of legalizing psychedelic mushrooms and exploring their medicinal potential.

He sees potential in recent studies.

“For serious treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, for coming to terms with end of life issues, I think there’s great validity," he said.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research in Baltimore, United States, have published 64 peer-reviewed studies over the past 13 years on psilocybin and their effects on humans.

In one such study from 2016, titled Long-term Follow-up of Psilocybin-facilitated Smoking Cessation, researchers found that psilocybin, when administered in a structured treatment plan, effectively helped the majority of participants to curb their addiction.

After a year, 67 per cent of the participants had not resumed smoking.

The researchers concluded psilocybin was more effective for smoking cessation than other medications and therapeutic methods.

In September, Vancouver city council discussed a proposal to investigate the distribution and sale of psilocybin, according to their meeting minutes.

Thirteen speakers attended to defend the natural psychedelic and the proposal was ultimately rejected.

Counsellor Pete Fry said: “I don’t think this motion is helpful at all. I think it imparts far too much stigma and sets us off on a bias that is not helpful to having a fulsome conversation.”