‘Dune’ Is a Psychedelic Sci-Fi Hit: 5 Ways Mushroom Magic Inspired Frank Herbert’s Masterpiece
From mind-expanding spice to honoring sacred medicine, Denis Villeneuve’s trippy new movie celebrates psychedelics throughout.
From mind-expanding spice to honoring sacred medicine, Denis Villeneuve’s trippy new movie celebrates psychedelics throughout.
A new study describes the Pacific Northwest as “by far the best place in America to go looking for psychedelic mushrooms.”
Explore how the Mazatecs, the Shipibo People, Yanomami People, and Africans practicing the Bwiti religion continue to use various entheogens to this day.
Did early humans accelerate evolution by tripping balls on psychedelic mushrooms? One psychonaut ethnobiologist says: absolutely.
“Australian native ‘magic mushrooms’ may have evolved different methods for psilocybin production and offer adaptations that are preferential for use in clinical treatments,” explains University of Queensland mycologist Dr. Alistair McTaggart.
Since May 2019, nine cities and the state of Oregon have decriminalized psychedelics. Carlos Plazola has had his hand in nearly all of them.
“A mushroom is not a pharmaceutical product,” CEO Evan Levine stresses, and explains why his company’s method of biologically engineering psilocybin is “cheaper, faster, greener.”
Just like any good trip, the history of psilocybin has many colorful and surprising turns.
The Vancouver-based company says it has overcome the challenges of natural extraction with its new technology, which can produce superior psilocybin at a lower cost.
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