Washington state led on legalizing marijuana. Plant-derived psychedelics could be next. by In this Friday, May 24, 2019 photo a vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) Tatiana Luz first ingested mushrooms containing psilocybin in 2018. It was life-changing. “I feel like I’ve lived a pretty normal life. I’m a pretty resilient person,” she says. “But when it came to the residuals of trauma, I never knew how much it was affecting me until I had my first psychedelic experience.” As a child in northern New Jersey, Luz experienced domestic violence over a number of years. She never got to know her father, who, she says, was a casualty of the war on drugs. As an adult, she was barely aware of how these childhood experiences had shaped her, making it hard to trust people or initiate meaningful relationships. Psilocybin changed that. “It really awakened me to the constructs that my body and my mind had created to protect me, the things I had to learn to do to survive that emotionally,” she says.