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Heim cultivated the mushrooms in France and despatched samples for Evaluation to Albert Hofmann, a chemist employed via the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz (now Novartis). Hofmann—who experienced synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938—led a research group that isolated and discovered the psychoactive alkaloids psilocybin and p