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Seamus Bellamy / 4:15 am Wed, Jul 25, 2018

The BBC talks microdosing magic mushrooms and LSD in this fascinating video

This video churned out by the BBC in 2017, offers a number of frank, intelligent conversations about the microdosing of LSD and magic mushrooms. Those interviewed seem sincere in how the practice has improved their everyday lives in a manner that's medicinal, not recreational. As a guy who's traditionally limited his drug use to booze […]
Mark Frauenfelder / 11:00 am Mon, Aug 14, 2017

Scientists finally discover how to synthesize magic mushrooms' active ingredient, psilocybin

In 1943 Sandoz chemist Albert Hofmann became the first person to synthesize (and take) LSD. He was also the first person to isolate and identify psilocybin, the main psychedelic component in magic mushrooms, almost 60 years ago. "Yet no one has been able to unravel the enzymatic pathway the mushrooms use to make psilocybin, until […]