Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychoactive compound that is synthesized by over 200 mushrooms of the Psilocybe (pronounced sil-ohh-cy-bee) genus. It’s not clear why these mushrooms have evolved to produce a compound that closely imitates ...

Pre History The use of mind-altering mushrooms has pervaded human society since long prior to the birth of civilization approximately 6000 years ago, and potentially even multiple hundred thousand years into antiquity. The earliest concrete ...