Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor
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The History of Psychedelics
There's evidence that Mayan and Aztec people in Central America have been using psychedelic mushrooms for at least 3,000 years. When Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century, they thought that psychedelics were related to the devil. By 1620, the Spanish had banned the use or trade of any plant with psychedelic properties. The modern era of psychedelics truly began in the late 1930s when a Swiss chemist discovered LSD.
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