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It promises to cure stubborn depression, alleviate anxiety, free people from addiction and, in one single-person case study, seemed to restore the ability of a woman with advanced Alzheimer’s to talk and recognise loved ones.

Psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – and other psychedelics have long promised to revolutionise mental health treatment and…

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