Psilocybin (magic mushrooms)

Psilocybin mushrooms, often known as magic mushrooms, mushrooms, or shrooms, are a polyphyletic, informal collection of fungi that contain psilocybin, which when consumed converts to psilocin. Copelandia, Gymnopilus, Inocybe, Panaeolus, Pholiotina, Pluteus, and Psilocybe are among the biological genera that include psilocybin mushrooms. Psilocybin mushrooms have been and continue to be employed in indigenous New World civilizations for religious, divinatory, or spiritual purposes. They can be found in Stone Age rock art in Africa and Europe, but they are most renowned in Pre-Columbian sculptures and glyphs found across North, Central, and South America.