-
A Canadian partnership with international ties to advance the field of psychedelic medicine globally with standardized extracts
-
A leader in naturally-derived psilocybin for extraction, production of advanced formulations and clinical research
TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Psyence Group Inc. (CSE: PSYG) (“Psyence” or the “Company”) and Pure Extracts Technologies Corp. (CSE: PULL) (OTC: PRXTF) (XFRA: A2QJAJ) (“Pure Extracts”) announce the signing of a Joint Venture agreement (the “JV”) “Pure Psyence” for the development of nature-derived psilocybin extracts and advanced psilocybin formulations for the long-term treatment of psychological trauma and its mental health consequences.
Pure Psyence will leverage Psyence’s supply of high-quality standardized psilocybin mushrooms with Pure Extract’s expertise in extraction technologies to produce high-quality, high-purity medicinal mushroom extracts and formulations on a commercial pharmaceutical scale.
Psyence has built and operates one of the first federally licensed commercial psilocybin cultivation and production facilities in the world, focused on the production of certified, high-quality psilocybin/psilocin-yielding mushrooms. The facility, which is in the Kingdom of Lesotho, has been designed and constructed to The British Standards Institute (BSI) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. All harvests are shipped with an export permit from the Lesotho Ministry of Health and a Certificate of Analysis indicating the Psilocybin and Psilocin potency of each batch of psychoactive mushrooms.
Pure Extracts is a plant-based extraction company with extensive expertise in cannabis, hemp, functional mushrooms and psychoactive mushrooms. A Dealer’s Licence was submitted to Health Canada under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) to process psilocybin mushrooms at its state-of-the-art extraction facility. Located in Pemberton, BC, the Pure Extract facility was built for EU-GMP certification.
Dr. Justin Grant, Chief Scientific Officer of Psyence, commented, “Psilocybin mushrooms hold a rich pharmacopeia of unique elements that Pure Psyence is researching to create breakthrough synergies in mental health solutions.”
The JV’s combined expertise in formulation development of psychoactive compounds will enable Pure Psyence to produce stable and effective psilocybin medicinal products. Pure Psyence’s physicians and scientists will work to make psilocybin more accessible to leading Canadian research institutions as well as provide psilocybin to its own research team at Pure Psyence for human clinical trials.
Pure Extracts CEO, Ben Nikolaevsky, remarked, “Pure Psyence sits at the intersection of evidence-based science and nature. The researchers, scientists and physicians at Pure Psyence will now be uniquely positioned to bring psilocybin whole mushroom in measurable pharmaceutical dosages to market; a first.”
Read more:Psyence Group and Pure Extracts Finalize “Pure Psyence,” A Joint Venture for the