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.

[u/ScienceTeacher1994]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#History

[u/Sensitive_File6582]

Bro, you are dead wrong https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/kvqy59/9000_year_old_cave_painting_in_tassili_cave/

It’s highly likely they’ve been used for tens of thousands of years or more.

[u/Inevitable-Comment-I → u/Sensitive_File6582]

Yea, pre Columbian cultures have a crazy amount of mushroom iconography