THE BEST SIDE OF THERAPEUTIC PSYCHEDELICS

Heim cultivated the mushrooms in France and despatched samples for Assessment to Albert Hofmann, a chemist used by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz (now Novartis). Hofmann—who had synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938—led a exploration team that isolated and discovered the psychoactive alkaloids psilocybin and psilocin fro