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Scientists Finally Unlock the Recipe For Magic Mushrooms (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Aside from being a schedule 1 drug, scientists haven't fully understood the chemistry behind how mushrooms produce the chemical psilocybin -- until now. A new study may finally lay the groundwork for a medical-grade psilocybin patients can take. Gizmodo reports: "Living things make molecules through a series of chemical reactions, similar to how car makers produce cars on assembly lines. Enzymes act as the workers/robots, speeding up the reactions by helping put the pieces together. Actually making psilocybin requires mapping the biological factory. A 1968 paper (obviously it was in 1968) offered a proposed order of events leading to a finished psilocybin molecule, by adding radioactive elements and watching what happened to them on the assembly line. The researchers thought that maybe tryptophan, the amino acid everyone wrongly says makes you sleepy, was the first piece, which then went through four successive steps to become the finished product. The new study shows that the 1968 paper got the order wrong, and introduces the responsible genes and enzymes, the workers that do the specific task to get the final product. This time around, mapping the factory required sequencing the genomes of two magic mushroom species, Psilocybe cubensis and Psilocybe cyanescens. Then, the researchers found exactly which genes produce the required enzymes and spliced them into E. coli bacteria. Using those enzymes, they were able to rebuild the factory and create their own psilocybin." The study has been published in the German journal Angewandte Chemie.
the age of Aquarius was started by the CIA. they gave the drugs to CIA scientists around the country, mostly at prisons, universities, hospitals. typically professors at universities were responsible for recruiting students or test subjects to take random drugs, it was usually with them being unwitting in various ways, such as them hiding the fact it was done for the CIA in MKULTRA. other times they weren't even told what they were getting, and other times weren't even told they were getting it. numerous drugs including LSD, psilocybin, meth, cocaine, and other drugs were given. one test subject a student at Stanford named Ken Kesey, author of one flew over the cuckoo's nest, was tested on. he then took the drugs and did the Electric Acid Kool Aid test, where he drove across America doing parties giving the drugs out to people. they had home made LSD, and even some manufactured by the CIA, which was the more potent good stuff.
the drugs were designed/intended to aid in interrogation, mind control, and even turning people schizophrenic for the purpose of discrediting, etc.
the combo of Ken Kesey, who's from Eugene/Springfield OR like me, and I know many of his friends personally, and the CIAs testing at other universities literally led to the hippie movement and age of Aquarius. no joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
from what I know since Obama took office, human experiments with mind control really started to boom. the first LSD, laser lobotomy, and other research is now funded thanks partly due to Obama's Brain Initiative and the push by his administration to basically start up mkultra again publically.
https://www.obamasweapon.com/