Psilocybin
(asked on 18th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will discuss the reclassification of psilocybin from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
This question was answered on 21st October 2022
The Government has no plans to commission the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to assess the classification of Psilocybin.
Psilocybin, as an “ester of psilocin”, is controlled as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (the 1971 Act) and is placed in Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
Psilocin is also subject to the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, to which the United Kingdom is signatory.