Your Mind, Your Right Fundraiser

                                                 Your Mind Belongs to You - Help Us Prove it in Court

Many supporters generously supported the "Your Mind Your Freedom" court case by contributing to the Psychedelic Association of Canada's GoFundMe. As a result of that support I ordered the transcripts on March 2, 2026. Attached is a link to my Certificate confirming the transcripts were ordered. We are seeking $140,000 in total to fight this case at the Ontario Court of Appeal. We want a Canada where 40 million people have the right to safely explore their own minds with psilocybin—and where that right is protected under the Charter, not granted as a rare medical favour.

Join the Psychedelic Association of Canada and Lawyer Paul Lewin to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary!

Fundraiser Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/your-mind-belongs-to-you-help-us-prove-it-in-court

If we win, the Canadian federal government will be forced to legalize psilocybin for healthy adults, subject to reasonable limits, as a protected “freedom of thought” tool—much like a passport is protected as a freedom of mobility tool and information‑gathering is protected as a freedom of the press tool. This case argues that psilocybin is to thought what the printing press was to freedom of expression: it doesn’t dictate what you think, it lets you think more deeply, creatively, and freely.

We already built a powerful evidentiary record showing psilocybin reliably supports cognitive flexibility, spirituality, life meaning, connection to self, others, and nature—evidence backed by leading researchers like David Nutt and many peer‑reviewed studies. Even the government’s own expert acknowledged that psilocybin can produce mystical and spiritual experiences, creativity, and profound shifts in perspective.

Yet the trial judge created a brand‑new, unworkable test, insisting that a freedom‑of‑thought tool must produce a predictable, specific thought—something no genuine thought tool (not a philosophy book, not psychotherapy, not psilocybin) could ever guarantee. He then brushed aside hundreds of pages of testimony and exhibits and called psilocybin’s relationship to thought “remote,” despite finding that it increases neuroplasticity and enables new thought patterns with therapeutic support.

There is very good news buried in that bad decision: the judge found psilocybin can be used safely from a licensed source in a supervised setting, and that there is no practical exemption pathway for people seeking access for thought-related purposes. In constitutional terms, that means if we establish that psilocybin is a freedom-of-thought tool, the government will struggle to justify its prohibition—and we win.

The client who started this case is now out of the country and out of money; without your support, the appeal dies and this mountain of carefully gathered evidence is wasted. With your help, we can carry this Freedom-of-Thought Challenge to the top court in Ontario and set a precedent that could ripple across other psychedelics and even other countries where freedom of thought is constitutionally protected. Please donate what you can and share widely—this is our chance to change the law, not just for a handful of patients, but for everyone.

Join the Psychedelic Association of Canada and Lawyer Paul Lewin to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary!