b. October 22, 1920 On May 13, 1957, Life magazine published an article by R.

Gordon Wasson that doc um ented the use of psilo cybin mushrooms in religious rites of the indigenous Mazatec people of Mexico.[1 3] Anthony Russo, a colle ague of Leary's, experimented with his own use of psychedelic (or entheogenic) p silocybe mexicana mushrooms on a trip to Mexico and told Leary about it. In August 1960,[14] Leary traveled to Cue rnavaca, Mexico with Russo and consumed ps ilocybin mushrooms for the first time, an experience that drastically altered th e course of his life.[15]