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This article seems like wild speculation, while this team in Denmark says they've already done it: https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-synthesis-yeast-bact...

...using boring old yeast, not GMO kombucha!



Any yeast that produces psilocybin is GMO unless there is some yeast in nature that naturally produces it. The article you link uses GMO yeast


The article linked here is talking about using gene-editing to create a kombucha culture that can produce it too.


I exited out when the authors claimed that “kombucha provides good set and setting.”




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