The gene rush: colonizing science through biopiracy

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....

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