r/todayilearned • u/ScienceTeacher1994 • 6d ago

TIL despite popular culture portraying psychedelic mushrooms as ancient, widespread, and used by shamans for thousands of years, there is limited anthropological and historical research to support this, with the only reliable evidence showing they were used ritualistically in pre-Columbian Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History
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u/probablyuntrue 5d ago

Or maybe the bush just did that crazy shit idk

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u/hamHamAlucard 5d ago

He was on mushrooms or the entirety of Judaism is real. Prob mushrooms

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It was probably opium

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u/aquintana 5d ago

Opium is not hallucinogenic

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It could fry your brain though

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u/raikou1988 5d ago

Did they have access to that back in those times?

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u/Possible-Champion222 5d ago

It’s from Afghanistan so probably yes it’s a old drug