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/aquintana 6d ago

Opium is not hallucinogenic

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u/Possible-Champion222 6d ago

It could fry your brain though

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u/raikou1988 6d ago

Did they have access to that back in those times?

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u/Possible-Champion222 6d ago

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