[wagglebee]

Been watching this. Not all hallucinogenic drugs end up being used in religious practices ~ just some.

My guess is that this is probably more a factor of availability than anything else.

[muawiyah]

Not really ~ many earlier societies without a DEA were able to be quite open about it and ended up using only some of the available substances.

One of the things I find interesting in this is that in the Old World there are a half dozen or so hallucinogenic sources yet in the New World there are 238+ (according to many sources).