Someone with a vested interest in pushing these drugs saw an opportunity to recruit someone with enough of a YouTube audience that it was worth their expense to fund his 'experiment' so he could blab about his wonderful 'experience' to promote their use.
That would be standard business practice for Lloyd. I can see him being DMed and emailed by interested parties to go to the shroom guy, and Lloyd forwards the contact info to his friend in exchange for a percentage.
He did the same thing with COC. He referred people to Arthur after promoting the bootleg on one of his videos, Arthur did all the work, and Lloyd received a cut of the profits.
I certainly maintained the view, based on what lloyd said, that mushrooms were not illegal in Canada and that he could have been going to a person with recognised qualifications in that area of medicine.
I must confess that I too was misled into thinking it was a legitimate enterprise in Canada. After all, they seem to have liberal laws concerning euthanasia and lax drug policies.
Now that I think of it, his friend was probably some self-styled new age “therapist” working out of a teepee or yurt in Saskatchewan. Anyone can print a business card out of nothing and make bold claims of expertise in certain fields.