After facing legal scrutiny for decades, psychedelics including MDMA and psilocybin received a stamp of approval from Health Canada for medical purposes. Canada's legislation now permits the use of psychedelics beyond palliative care, something health advocates are calling a major breakthrough in treating serious or life-threatening conditions. This news is great for patients interested in psychedelic treatments for mental illness and will likely offer companies Compass Pathways,ATAI Life Sciences, Revive Therapeutics Ltd,Mind Medicine (MindMed), and Numinus Wellness who are conducting clinical trials on various psychedelics a smoother pathway to approval.

Numinus Wellness helps people heal through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care. This includes access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The company's business model focuses on psychedelic production, research, and clinical care to heal symptoms for illnesses such as depression, anxiety, trauma, pain, and substance use.

On January 18, Numinus Wellness announced that it has completed the necessary steps to begin enrolling participants for its MAPS Public Benefit Corporation study, a multi-site open-label extension study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD (MAPPUSX). The study received regulatory approval from Health Canada, along with ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB). It was also granted a Section 56 exemption from the Controlled Drug and Substance Act to allow the use of MDMA to test the safety and efficacy in treating severe PTSD throughout the duration of the clinical trial.