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name: mexicana
image: "https://assets.0xhoneyjar.xyz/Mibera/traits/SS2_acidhouse_Mexicana.webp"
archetype: Acidhouse
swag_score: 2
date_added: "2024-07-06"
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# mexicana

## Visual Elements

a mushroom in light brown, thin stem / body, slightly pointy head.

## Cultural Context

Psilocybe mexicana is the species used by the Mazatec people of Mexico and later studied by R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann. It is the species from which psilocybin was first isolated and named, making it foundational to psychedelic science.

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## Justification

The species where Western psychedelic science begins: Hofmann isolated psilocybin from it, Wasson brought it to LIFE magazine, and the rest is history.
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**Archetype:** acidhouse
**Swag Score:** 2
**Date Added:** 2024-07-06