A History of Magic Mushrooms | Andy Letcher

Magic mushrooms may have one of the strangest histories of any psychedelic. They have been connected to prehistoric Europeans, Druids, Vikings, ancient mystery cults, shamans, witches, and even Santa Claus. But how much of that history can we actually prove? In the first installment of our History of Psychedelics series, we sit down with Andy Letcher, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, to separate the documented history of psilocybin mushrooms from the mythology that ...