Yahoo News (USA) December 11th, 2014 10:22 AM: Drugs in Early Americas Included 'Magic' Mushrooms and Toad Skins
From hallucinogenic mushrooms and cacti to alcohol-infused enemas and psychoactive dried toad skins, the array of consciousness-altering substances that people in the early Americas used was wider than thought, a new report suggests. People living in Mesoamerica before the arrival of Europeans used such psychotropic drugs primarily in medicine and religious rituals, said study author Francisco Javier Carod-Artal of Hospital Virgen de la Luz in Cuenca, Spain. Moreover, some of these drugs are still used today for medicinal purposes in indigenous communities, Carod-Artal said.
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