About 80 per cent of readers were opposed to extending drug legalization to psilocybin-containing mushrooms or MDMA in an online poll this week.
In many Canadian communities, you might get the impression that psilocybin mushrooms actually are legal (they are not), as the stores selling them are both tolerated and not at all subtle about their line of business. Police concede that they are often a low priority for enforcement.
Men are more likely to favour wider legalization ...
... as are younger respondents ...
... as are higher-income readers.
Very unusually for our polls, party affiliation seems to make almost no difference, at least if we look at the three major parties. Green and PPC voters are the most libertarian on this issue.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, views on this issue have a strong relationship to views on cannabis legalization, and cannabis use. (To turn that on its head, though, about three-quarters of those who favoured legalizing weed oppose expanding legalization further.)
The question is also connected to attitudes to tattoos.
People who never attend religious services of any kind are more likely to favour a wider legalization ...
... and also somewhat more likely to favour looser gun control.
An extra poll
The orange-to-red shift in the last election was remarked on (and it's important) but Abacus also found an orange-to-blue shift: 21 per cent of 2021 New Democrats voted Conservative this time around.
For what it's worth, our data doesn't show that strong a shift: in Village Media polls, only 16 per cent of 2021 NDP voters voted Conservative in 2025.