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THE JOURNAL · QUIZ

How much do you know about magic mushrooms?

15 questions on the history, the science, Canadian law and Toronto, and the names. Each answer explains what our sourced guides say and links to the full story.

Education only: no doses, no buying, no growing, no advice to use. Psilocybin and psilocin are controlled substances in Canada.

Question 1 of 15 History

María Sabina, the Mazatec healer whose night vigil made headlines, came from which town?

Choose an answer first.

The 15 questions, and where each answer comes from

Every answer restates one of our published pages. Here are the questions with the page behind each, so you can read the full story after you play.

  1. María Sabina, the Mazatec healer whose night vigil made headlines, came from which town? María Sabina, Mazatec healer
  2. In May 1957, a J.P. Morgan banker named R. Gordon Wasson published “Seeking the Magic Mushroom”. Which magazine ran it? Wasson’s 1957 Life article
  3. In 1958, Albert Hofmann’s team at Sandoz in Basel reported psilocybin from which mushroom? Albert Hofmann and psilocybin, 1958
  4. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert’s Concord Prison Experiment claimed psilocybin cut reoffending. What did a 1998 follow-up find? The Harvard Psilocybin Project
  5. In the 1962 Good Friday Experiment, who were the volunteers? The Good Friday Experiment, 1962
  6. Which molecule is the form that acts on the brain’s serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptors? Psilocin vs psilocybin
  7. Why do some magic mushrooms bruise blue when damaged? Why do magic mushrooms turn blue?
  8. A 2022 DNA study put true Psilocybe at about 165 species. In roughly how many has psilocybin actually been measured? How many psilocybin species are there?
  9. Where are psilocin and psilocybin listed in Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act? How magic mushrooms became illegal in Canada
  10. When the federal Le Dain Commission delivered its final report in December 1973, where was psilocybin on Canada’s drug schedules? How magic mushrooms became illegal in Canada
  11. Under section 56(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, who can grant an exemption? Section 56 exemptions
  12. Who can make a request to Health Canada’s Special Access Program? The Special Access Program
  13. What was Rochdale College, the tower at Bloor and Huron in Toronto that opened in 1968? Rochdale College: Toronto’s free university
  14. Where does the common name “liberty cap” for Psilocybe semilanceata come from? Liberty cap: the name and its history
  15. Psilocybe cubensis was first published in 1906 under a different name. What was it? Psilocybe cubensis: the name and its history