World Psychedelics Day: Celebrating the Future of Psychedelic Medicine with Delic – Latest cannabis news today

Matt Stange saw the future. When the former owner of The High Times stared at a potential life sentence for cannabis trafficking in 2010, he knew we were past the event horizon – his verdict was somewhere in the epilogue of the war on drugs. Today Stang is CEO of Delic, the world’s first psychedelic wellness company. “The world changes every day. … And now a lot more people see it, ”he says and is anything but smoke.

Two years after Stang’s arrest, Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize recreational cannabis. Sixteen states followed suit, plus 35 states that were legalized for medical purposes. Almost a decade later, Stang sees another turning point coming. “We saw the same signs. Same scientific research [with] great minds working on the side of activism, science and commercial commercialization, so we built Delic to make psychedelic wellness mainstream. ”Together with his wife Jackee, they founded Delic (CSE: DELC) (OTCQB: DELCF). On World Psychedelics Day, Matt Stang talks about Delic, psychedelic treatment centers and our need for healing connection after a global pandemic.

Paving the way from cannabis to psychedelics

World Psychedelics Day is a project of the Psychedelic Awareness Foundation, a Canadian non-profit organization. The groundbreaking conference features a full day of cross-border discussions hosted by industry leaders such as Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Gabor Mate and Dr. Rick Doblin, Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). This year the event is completely virtual with free entry.

As someone who has been promoting events similar to the Cannabis Cup for decades, Stang knows that one day is not enough to change his mind – it takes a collective push. Delic recently signed a contract for several psychedelic clinics that offer ketamine infusions. Ketamine is currently the only psychedelic legally available to patients in the U.S. outside of a clinical trial, with FDA approval for treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain, and more. Only a handful of clinics in Canada like Change Pain offer ketamine infusions, and they come at a high price that isn’t covered by provincial insurance. Nonetheless, organizations such as the Ketamine Assisted Therapy Association of Canada (KATA) emerge and continue to promote ketamine education and accessibility.

“It comes down to making psychedelics safe and accessible to everyone,” says Stang, acknowledging that cannabis has paved the proverbial path for psychedelics today: how it happens. It’s the same thing we did with cannabis, it’s a very basic game. ”

The industry is paying attention

In October, Vancouver-based Numinus Wellness Inc. completed the first legal harvest of psilocybin mushrooms by a public company in Canada. The historic decision marks one of the first approved medical uses for psilocybin in 60 years. Delic also has a licensed psilocybin and cannabis laboratory in Canada working on novel ways of administering psilocybin. While Canada is currently the only country with a license to conduct psilocybin research, Stang is optimistic that the equivalent could be made in the states within the next year. Stang and other experts suggest that MDMA could get FDA approval as early as 2023. “For Delic, I see ourselves as leaders in the field of psychedelic wellness and make it as safe and accessible as possible.”

From revolution to evolution

Matt and Jackee Stang. Photo courtesy Delic.

“These substances help to change people, psychedelics help people to feel heard and seen. … It enables you to see other perspectives and to leave your ego and feel connected. … That’s not good when it comes to a regime that keeps people apart, fearful and angry, ”explains Stang.

The remnants of the drug war cling to North America like a half-skinned exoskeleton, but Stang insists that we go beyond a revolution – it’s an evolution. “In the last election in America everything that was against the drug war was won,” he says. This comes at a time when mental health challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing around the world. “There has been 15 months of incredible trauma, stress, and mental health issues, and there is no good way to deal with it. [There are] so many people [who] need psychedelic wellbeing now, ”he added.

COVID put mental health and daily life into a razor-sharp focus, accelerating a collective shift in perspective towards accessibility and connection. Psychological problems emerge from the rubble like an echo pandemic. Between the relics of the war on drugs and COVID, Stang believes that this is where psychedelic wellbeing is most needed. “People are so caught up in these stories built like binary good versus evil instead of understanding that things are simple, and people take these things and use them to create meaning.”

The World Psychedelic Day conference will be held on Sunday, June 20, from 6:45 am EST to 3:00 am EST. This fall, Delic is hosting Meet Delic, the world’s largest psychedelic conference, in Las Vegas. “The whole hall and the theater [are] completely immersive, it feels like you are in a moving 3D image. ”The event takes place in the world’s first art center – a 50,000 square meter art installation by the experimental art collective Meow Wolf that is completely dependent on movement.

For more information, visit worldpsychedelicsday.org. Follow Delic on meetdelic.com