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Surprisingly the main groups that didn’t trip balls for most of what we know are the sub Saharan Africans, the native aboriginal Australians and Native American
by dyauspitr 2y ago
Surprisingly the main groups that didn’t trip balls for most of what we know are the sub Saharan Africans, the native aboriginal Australians and Native Americans for the most part except in the south. There must be something about sedentary civilization that makes tripping balls necessary.
- NewJazz 2y agoBoredom lol? Deep knowledge of plants and fungi?
- woleium 2y agoLess boredom, more the time to sit and study in a place where compounding variables are more constrained.
- GuB-42 2y agoAlso, maybe the availability of drugs. If there are no safe substances available in the area and limited trade options, then people won't trip balls, or they will trip balls and die, which is not very encouraging.
- wisty 2y agoPituri is a native Australian tobacco relative (the only widely used old world tobacco) and was a hallucination in high doses.
- defrost 2y agoSeasonal psilocybin mushroom usage in the south west corner of Australia predates european settlement. To this day, it persists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YiszoAvOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5YiszoAvOk
- Perenti 2y agoSome Banjulung people also respect shrooms traditionally. There as psilocybin mushrooms through most of the non-arid parts of Australia.
- dr_dshiv 2y agoGreat documentary on 80s magic mushroom users in Australia. Worth a watch. Nothing on indigenous use, though…
- defrost 2y agoIt's purely contemporary, well, Acceptable in the 80s ... anything else yu'd have touch grass with the pelopolees
- Perenti 2y agoIndigenous Australians really really like drugs. There are rules about how often you can trip, and with whom, but there are magic shrooms over much of Oz, as well as plants with opioid-like effects, such as pituri.
- throwup238 2y agoIboga and datura in Subsaharan Africa, too.