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In 2016, researchers from New York University blindfolded a handful of terminally ill cancer patients and gave them a potent dose of psilocybin—the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms. Each of the 29 patients had volunteered to take part in the medical experiment for somewhat comprehensible reasons: they were unable to handle the certainty of their own deaths.
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