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We up? Yeah. Put them headphones on. It's rock and roll, Paul. Good to see you, sir.
Good to see you, Joe.
What's happening? How you doing? Book number eight, huh?
Book number eight, yeah.
Who would have known? There's so many books to be written on mushrooms.
Well, this is state-of-the-art taxonomy. Psilocybe mushrooms are a natural habitat. It covers 60 species all over the world. But it also shows not only historical use, which people are surprised have been used in India and Europe. In South Africa, a new species was just found, psilocybin maluti. But the Basuthu and Lesotho province have been using it, obviously, for hundreds of years.
We know this because they have songs. So it's really interesting when indigenous people of using psilocybin mushrooms and scientists, quote, discover them and give them a Latin binomial. But the psilocybin mushroom revolution is happening all over the world right now. I never expected it to be this big. And the Rand report came out this past year.
Three percent of Americans tripped on psilocybin in 2023. It's only three? Three percent. That's eight million. I know. I would agree with you because how many people would admit it, right?
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