A single psilocybin experience has led to sustained remission of depression and anxiety for up to two years in depressed and anxious cancer patients.

“And although the design of the study was such, it was a crossover design so people were crossed over between essentially an inactive dose of psilocybin to an active dose or vice-versa. So the strongest conclusion we can make comparing our placebo condition and our active condition is this effect lasted out to five weeks”

“So, in other words, most people who demonstrated a large therapeutic effect remained having low levels of anxiety or depression out to six months.”

“but in fact, we followed people out to six months and there was no evidence that there was any significant rate of relapse over that period of time.”

“I know from Steve, you know, that he’s followed up on people, these are depressed, anxious people with cancer, that those who are still alive two years, later many of them, most of them are still un-depressed and not taking...”