[mschuster91]

> They say this wasn't an experimental protocol, nor research, so I guess they dosed grandma for shits and giggles?

Medical doctors have a veeeeery wide leeway when it comes to the question of what they are allowed to do to patients. If nothing goes wrong or no one complains, pretty much everything goes - ethics reviews are only a thing for large-scale studies.

The exception tends to come from drug laws - in countries like Germany, for example, psilocybin is completely banned from manufacture, possession or prescription outside of highly regulated and specially permitted academic studies, but in countries with more relaxed attitudes, as a doctor you can do individual therapies as long as you find someone willing to pay for it.

In fact, that is a common issue with cancer and rare diseases. A bunch of therapies popular in that space run either with approved medication that gets used for another purpose or in higher/lower dosages (=off label treatment) or with completely new, untested and unapproved substances - that one was an issue here in Germany with a doctor inventing his own COVID vaccine, it ended up being dragged through the courts, with a recent acquittal [1] as the court considered this as an individual therapy.

[1] https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/lg-luebeck-corona-imp...