Dark Side of the Shroom: What Psychedelic Legalization Gets Wrong

How do you patent and regulate a spiritual sacrament?

Pop quiz: Who discovered America? Who discovered psilocybin?

Did Christopher Columbus pop into your head for the first question? What about Timothy Leary for the second? Maybe some psychonauts thought of the Mazatec curandera Maria Sabina, who first allowed western researchers like R. Gordon Wasson to partake of psilocybin as religious sacrament, in whic…