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Mooney is the best! Wasnt he the first westerner to have a legit psychedelic trip? From peyote. Magic mushrooms were only discovered by westerners in 1957.

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? magic mushrooms grow all over the world, and have been known in western cultures for all history.

Ha! That’s what I’d thought! Go down the rabbit hole and find some evidence—I dare you :)

There is no evidence of psilocybin use in the west prior to 1957. Crazy but true.

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