Hunt for Psychedelic Mushrooms Faces DEA Hurdle to Right to Try

Erinn Baldeschwiler is facing death and trying to focus on the things she can control. She wants that list to include the care she receives.

Listen to the narrated article, read by Alex Ruoff.

Baldeschwiler is looking into new treatments for the metastatic breast cancer she’s been battling, the cancer doctors have said will take her life. For the past year she’s been pushing the Drug Enforcement Administration to decide if she can get access to psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in psychedelic mushrooms, to help ease her depression and anxiety.

“I can’t control the cancer in my ...