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1955 An amateur mycologist from Manhattan named R. Gordon Wasson and his wife, Valentina, visit Huautla de Jiménez, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, where Wasson cajoles local medicine woman María Sabina into letting him (and photographer Allan Richardson and Valentina) participate in a Mazatec mushroom ritual used for healing and connecting with the divine.
1957 magazine publishes