1) Concerns about disobedience and assumptions about the relationship between obedience and teaching authority probably drove the original 400 year suppression of hallucinationogenic mushrooms in North America. My research on the prohibition of mushrooms in North America corroborates the “conspiracy” theory that the US government prohibited mushrooms for control. However, the most successful prohibition of mushrooms occurred from the 1500s to the mid 1900s. Underground imitations of the Ministry of the Holy Spanish Inquisition (i.e., bishops and abbotts in secret churches with altered Inquisition insignia) helped to advance this prohibition. The prohibitionist theology assumed associations between obedience and teaching authority,… Read more »