It’s been said—by Terence McKenna, Paul Stamets, and others in the psychedelic scene who you can trust to play fast and loose with history—that the before the b

It’s been said—by Terence McKenna, Paul Stamets, and others in the psychedelic scene who you can trust to play fast and loose with history—that the before the beer purity laws of the 1500s, people brewed beer with various mindbending and toxic ingredients, including magic mushrooms. They also say that the church played a big role in creating the laws that stamped out the practice. I don’t know what their sources are for this, so I don’t really believe it about the mushrooms. But given that the printing press was still pretty new and for elites only, I can imagine how a possibly-widespread practice died out largely without comment in the historical record. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot#Purpose https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot#Purpose