The Le Dain Commission was the federal Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, named for its chairman, Gerald Le Dain. It was appointed on 29 May 1969 under Order in Council P.C. 1969-1112, held public hearings that included coffee houses in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and dated its final report 14 December 1973 (Le Dain, 1973).
The report is a key snapshot of Canadian drug law. It says psilocybin was “not included in any Canadian schedules” at the time (Le Dain, 1973, part 2), and that only a few exceptional experimenters seemed to have eaten magic mushrooms in Canada (Le Dain appendices). Of 32 street samples sold as psilocybin in its lab survey, only one tentatively contained it (Le Dain appendices). Its Toronto hearing on 17 October 1969 was held at the Penny Farthing coffee house in Yorkville (Le Dain appendices P and Q).
Psilocybin and psilocin are now in Schedule III of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Justice Laws). This is history, not legal advice.
Sources
- Le Dain Commission Final Report, 1973, front matter
- Le Dain Final Report, part 2
- Le Dain Final Report, appendices
- Le Dain Final Report, appendices M, P and Q
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