“Psychedelic Medicines – Canada Update and Perspectives”

AD LUCEM LAW CORPORATION was founded in 2013 by Robert W.E. Laurie, an award-winning, international lawyer qualified in England and called to the British Columbia Bar. Robert’s legal practice focuses on commercial business, government, regulatory issues, and charter and constitutional legalities surrounding cannabis and psychedelic plant medicines. Robert has many years of policy development, legal practice in corporate, commercial, and administrative law, and licensing, regulatory, and constitutional charter experience concerning medical access to cannabis and psilocybin. As a lawyer in Canada, Robert works to reform drug laws. As a consultant, he devises regulatory, government policy, and business solutions for global companies in the regulated food, cannabis, and psychedelic industries. Robert is a board advisor to the Psychedelic Association of Canada and Heroic Hearts Project and was an advisor with MAPS (Canada) and the Last Prisoner Project. 

Robert has been working and advocating tirelessly as a lawyer to improve medical patient access to cannabis, psychedelics, and sacred plant medicines and facilitate drug laws to better society. Robert advised Dr. Bruce Tobin and the TheraPsil Alliance litigation team (first Section 56 CDSA medical exemption for psilocybin in Canada). He was one of the Decriminalize Nature Canada Petition drafters, part of a national campaign to decriminalize restricted plant medicines and fungi in Canada. His goal is to help provide more options for doctors and treatments for anxiety, depression, addiction, and PTSD. Robert is an acclaimed international speaker, presenting at conferences and events on the laws surrounding cannabis, psychedelic, and entheogenic medicines in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia

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Robert W. E. Laurie, 
MA Juris (Hons) Oxon.
Barrister & Solicitor BC, Solicitor

England & Wales, Notary Public

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1500 – 701 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V7Y 1C6, Canada 

rob@adlucemlaw.com
www.adlucemlaw.com

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1500 – 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC V7Y 1C6, Canada