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Heim cultivated the mushrooms in France and despatched samples for Assessment to Albert Hofmann, a chemist utilized from the Swiss pharmaceutical enterprise Sandoz (now Novartis). Hofmann—who had synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938—led a research team that isolated and identified the psychoactive alkaloids psilocybin and psiloc