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Read the full story: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/s... Pradeep Bansal considered the five capsules he was about to swallow. Together they made up a 25 milligram dose of a substance that, in another setting, could have landed him in federal prison.⁠ The substance was psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms. He was taking it as part of an FDA-approved clinical study on mental health therapy for people with cancer.⁠ Bansal, a New York gastroenterologist, was far more comfortable giving medical treatment than receiving it. But he was getting used to it.⁠ He had already been through surgery and a number of other treatments to address the physical aspects of his cancer. The psilocybin was to address the mental aspects -- the crushing anxiety and depression that had stuck with him after his diagnosis.⁠ ⁠ So what happened next? And did it work? ⁠ ⁠