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Do You Know the Mushroom Man?

By Chris Taylor

As America experiments with decriminalizing psilocybin, one scientist spreads the gospel of 'shrooms at festivals — and in 'Star Trek.'

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Drugs: The Sacred Mushroom

Not long ago The New York Times carried a dispatch from Mexico telling about the descent of hippies on Huautla de Jimenez in quest of the “sacred mushrooms.” With the dispatch appeared a photo of a priestess of the rite, Maria Sabina.

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R. Gordon Wasson
1970
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On María Sabina, One of Mexico’s Greatest Poets

Long before 1960s counter-culture, an indigenous Mexican healer was creating extraordinary poetry under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms.

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Chloe Aridjis
2015
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This Mexican Medicine Woman Hipped America to Magic Mushrooms, with the Help of a Bank Executive

María Sabina was well-respected in the village as a healer and shaman. She’d been consuming psilocybin mushrooms regularly since she was seven years old, and had performed the velada mushroom ceremony for over 30 years before Wasson arrived.

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Ahmed Kabil
2017
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Could the Embrace of Psychedelics Lead to a Mental-Health Revolution?

The last time I was on ketamine, I was hooked up to an IV following surgery. This time, the drug—in general medical use as an anesthetic since 1970—arrived on my doorstep courtesy of Mindbloom, a new telemedicine company specializing in ketamine-based psychedelic therapy.

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Maya Singer
2021
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Psychedelics Could Trigger a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Mental Health Care

A new review of studies finds that LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA hold potential for treating mental illness.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2015
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Mixing Magic Mushrooms and Meditation Has Long-Term Benefits, Johns Hopkins Study Finds

The benefits of controlled psilocybin use and spiritual practice on people's well-being long outlast the high, researchers find.

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Teodora Zareva
2018
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Microdosing Psilocybin Mushrooms

Microdosing psilocybin mushrooms can lead to a psychedelic healing experience. The mushroom user can revisit trauma and find new insights.

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Becky Garrison
2021
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Military Veteran Seeks Magic Mushroom Therapy to Combat PTSD

Scott Atkinson says magic mushrooms have already done much to tame the post-traumatic stress demons conjured by two years serving in Afghanistan and Bosnia.

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Bill Kaufmann
2021
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

Williams is the co-lead author of a recent retrospective study that found those who tried doses of psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms), LSD, or MDMA (the pure substance found in Ecstasy or Molly) reported a decrease in trauma symptoms, depression and anxiety after 30 days.

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Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, Solarina Ho
2021
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My Adventures with the Trip Doctors

My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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