[colechristensen]

Humans as we are are only about 300 thousand years old, we haven’t been doing anything for millions of years.

Animals though have been seeking out mind altering substances for all we can determine, for as long as there were mind altering substances.

The oldest human religions used and still use mild altering substances, it is Christianity which is weird for shunning them (and most of where the abstinence drive comes from) and it was mostly xenophobia targeted against non Christians.

Psilocybin is often just taken by eating mushrooms, when it isn’t, a little isolation and purification doesn’t make much difference.