Scientists finally discover how to synthesize magic mushrooms' active ingredient, psilocybin

Edibles are going to get… interesting.

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Ummmm is it just me or is the headline wrong? @frauenfelder

I’m fairly certain we’ve be able to synthesize psilocybin since the early 60s. That wasn’t the breakthrough described here. What was just discovered was the exact enzymatic process that psilocybin is biosynthasized inside of mushrooms. Very different. also, we’ve known most the biosynthetic process for psilocybin for a long time, they just filled in the last missing piece.

Loved his books.

yep.

Well said.

We just cleared up this:

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We Yetinsyny have it made!

Might be more permissible than you would assume. Anecdotally, this is something learned by students in pharmacy programs, maybe during o-chem series.

But that could all be wrong.

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