Celia Gorman, writing for Leafly:
Cybin Corporation, one of many companies pursing [sic] psilocybin treatments, is throwing another factor into its clinical trials: drug delivery method. Existing research has focused on oral treatments, or pills, but Cybin is conducting trials with dissolvable films remarkably similar to minty breath strips. Cybin has partnered with pharmaceutical manufacturer IntelGenx to make the films, which may end up with a cherry flavor.
IntelGenx’s sublingual films can deliver a pharmaceutical ingredient directly into the bloodstream when placed under the tongue, as opposed to the long path through the gastrointestinal system and the liver when a pill is swallowed. With other pharmaceuticals, medication films have been shown to kick in faster and pack a harder punch with a lower dose.
In theory, the same will hold for psilocybin, and Cybin hopes to deliver 25 milligram (mg) results with a much smaller amount.
Sounds tastier than munching down a bag of shrooms or brewing a batch of lemon tek tea, but is it actually better in any other way? The psychonaut in me wants to try these from an exploratory standpoint but the purist in me thinks that people should just consume actual magic mushrooms. I’m glad to see more and more innovative options being explored, though.