#Psilocybin
6 entries tagged Psilocybin.
People (4)
- Albert Hofmann Swiss chemist at Sandoz Laboratories who first synthesized LSD in 1938 and experienced its effects on April 19, 1943, triggering decades of CIA interest in the drug as a behavioral control agent.
- Maria Sabina Mazatec curandera in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, who conducted the sacred Psilocybe mushroom ceremony for R. Gordon Wasson and CIA contractor James Moore in 1955, bringing the mushroom to Western and CIA attention.
- Roger Heim French mycologist and director of the Paris natural history museum who identified the sacred mushrooms of Mexico as Psilocybe species, cultivated them in his laboratory, and supplied the material from which Albert Hofmann isolated psilocybin, on the same 1956 Wasson expedition that the CIA had infiltrated through MKULTRA Subproject 58.
- Timothy Leary Harvard psychology lecturer who founded the Psilocybin Research Project in 1960, was fired by Harvard in 1963, and became the counterculture's most visible LSD advocate, operating under documented CIA surveillance while drawing on research networks whose funding traced directly to MKULTRA programs.
Organizations (1)
- Sandoz Swiss pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel where Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938 and discovered psilocybin in 1958, and which was the sole world supplier of LSD until Eli Lilly synthesized it commercially in 1954.
Places (1)
- Huautla de Jimenez Remote village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where R. Gordon Wasson and CIA contractor James Moore attended the sacred mushroom ceremony conducted by curandera Maria Sabina in 1955, with CIA awareness.