Alejandrina Pedro Castañeda opened a brown paper package and pulled out a handful of magic mushrooms, which many residents of this Indigenous Oaxacan town tenderly refer to as “child saints” or “the little ones that sprout.” Then she handed each of her six visitors — who had driven seven hours from Mexico City and paid up to $350 apiece for …
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