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drewismynamea t1_j6o4oav wrote
I know my viking ancestors did.
rapiertwit t1_j6o8nqc wrote
Yeah you don't hallucinate turning into a bear off just a flagon of mead.
Realistic_Truck t1_j6p6m0b wrote
Woke historical revisionism, the usual anti west, white people are evil rhetoric. And it does a huge disservice to native americans too.
Psylocibin has been used in Europe for thousands of years.
HPmoni t1_j6nxusf wrote
Literally every culture does drugs.
You need some business sense to be a scientist.
kerblooee OP t1_j6oeovk wrote
I am a scientist and this made me laugh, thank you 😂
Fkappa t1_j6nxhb3 wrote
Actually it's more Wasson and Hofmann who introduced the western world to psylocibin.
Succulentmeditator t1_j6odnff wrote
Richard Schultes had a role in it as well. IIRC Albert Hofmann was the one who isolated and identified the primary psychoactive alkaloids, but Wasson and Schultes were the ones to track down and get Maria Sabina to share her knowledge and ceremony involving the fungi.
Fkappa t1_j6p4qbi wrote
I know Schultes not so deeply, but IIRC Schultes' studies on spiritual use of psychedelics plants had a great impact on this banker, who was an amateur-level mycologist, Gordon Wasson. I don't know whether Schultes actually met Sabina.
Wasson of course did, he got to know Maria Sabina and attended her veladas, the ceremonies involving psychedelic mushrooms use. Through Wasson and his wife, mushrooms were sent to Albert Hofman in order to identify and then synthesize the shrooms alkaloids: psylocin, psylocibin and baeocistin. Hofman delivered.
Wasson visited Maria Sabina and gave her some tabs of lab made shrooms alkaloid and Sabina noted they were as functionally good as natural shrooms.
Succulentmeditator t1_j6peha6 wrote
It’s spelled “Hofmann”; the other well known, 60’s yippie activist, Albert “Abbie” spelled his name as Hoffman. Here’s an article on the sequence of western rediscovery of ceremonial Psilocybe species use: https://inecol.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/bitstream/1005/111/1/8451_2008-10264.pdf
Fkappa t1_j6piikn wrote
Thank you!
LeapIntoInaction t1_j6pjl9h wrote
Is the complaint here that she didn't build a marketing machine, form a monopoly on psilocybin, and die richer than Elon Musk?
I don't see where her "community's rituals" enter into it. All you do is eat a plant. This is not complicated.
Landlubber77 t1_j6o6qeh wrote
> The Mazatec sacred mushroom veladas have survived into the 21st century and are now accepted by the Catholic Church there.
"Body of Christ?"
"Yes father."
"Blood of Christ?"
"Yes father."
"Radical psychedelic mushrooms?"
"You fucking know it, son."
rapiertwit t1_j6o9qf5 wrote
Then she cursed the foreign interlopers for exploiting her sacred rituals, and that's how we got jam band music.
bolanrox t1_j6omfg3 wrote
you mean this stuff?
kokopilau t1_j6o1ztw wrote
It was Wassoon who introduced the western world to psilocybin.
tiredofthebites t1_j6nuntr wrote
Lived in abject poverty her whole life. Explains the drug use.
froggiechick t1_j6nxnxp wrote
...you are aware people of all economic backgrounds do drugs too right?
tiredofthebites t1_j6on57h wrote
No… you’re aware my comment was a joke right? Of course you do. You’re a smart chicky froggie. 🐸
MusicianIcy8975 t1_j6nylh6 wrote
People have been ingesting psilocybin in europe for many thousands of years.