The First Trip Report for Magic Mushrooms by an American (from Life Magazine, May 13, 1957)
Seeking the Magic Mushroom: A New York banker goes to Mexico's mountains to participate in the age-old rituals of Indians who chew strange growths that produce visions By R. Gordon Wasson
Read MoreMy 12 Hours as a Madman
by Sidney Katz
From the October 1, 1953 issue of Maclean's.
On the morning of Thursday, June 18, 1953, Sidney Katz swallowed a drug which, for twelve unforgettable hours, turned him into a madman. For twelve hours he inhabited a nightmare world in which he experienced the torments of hell and the ecstasies of heaven.
