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Heim cultivated the mushrooms in France and despatched samples for analysis to Albert Hofmann, a chemist used via the Swiss pharmaceutical business Sandoz (now Novartis). Hofmann—who experienced synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938—led a exploration group that isolated and determined the psychoactive alkaloids psilocybin and psi