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Maria Sabina was an Indigenous Mazatec healer from Huautla de Jiménez, a small town in Oaxaca, Mexico. She used psychedelic mushrooms to heal a variety of conditions, as was her community’s tradition for many generations before the Columbian invasion. In the mid-20th century, American banker and ethnobotanist Robert Gordon Wasson traveled in search of Sabina..
Why The Magic? One of the most surprising recent trends I've noticed in science news is the explosion of stories about magic mushrooms. Of course, this is.
While some of his unorthodox experiments deserve rightful criticism, his claim of improved creativity and cognition with the use of small doses of psychedelics is now getting traction with researchers studying “microdosing.”