Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms

in #science7 years ago

From Gizmodo

Based on prior reporting from field work and various sources, this reporter can confidently conclude that magic mushrooms are very chill. There’s more than college weekends to back that stance up, though. Past research has suggested they can help with the existential anxiety of cancer, positively change personalities, and even help kick nicotine addictions.

You might wonder, then, why doctors don’t prescribe mushrooms’ active ingredient, psilocybin. Aside from being a schedule 1 drug, scientists haven’t fully understood the chemistry behind how mushrooms produce the chemical—until now. A new study may finally lay the groundwork for a medical-grade psilocybin patients can take.

“Given the renewed pharmaceutical interest in psilocybin, our results may lay the foundation for its biotechnological production,” the researchers write in the study published this month in the journal Angewandte Chemie (it’s German).

Read more: http://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-unlock-the-recipe-for-magic-mushroom-1797855006
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Sounds like good stuff I'd like to learn more about to help with my mental illness as I found micro-dosing with magic mushrooms may be a good thing for me to explore.

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