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If we were to take a lesson from this history of mushroom use throughout the history of mankind, it would be the reality that magic mushrooms will most probably continue to be used in the future, well after current society finds its place in the history books. As such, in the U.S. magic mushrooms became inseparable from the counterculture; an association that led to their demise. By 1968 so-called ‘magic mushrooms’ were made illegal in the United States, and classed as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act two years later in 1970. This was due to the government’s perception that they were being abused, and due to a broader concerted effort to quash the counterculture. The peyote cactus is specifically exempt from the Schedule 3 controlled substances list under the CDSA, despite it containing mescaline, and is legal to grow, sell, and consume in Canada. But extracting and isolating the mescaline from the peyote plant would violate the CDSA as one would then be in possession of a controlled substance: mescaline. This exemption for peyote (and not mushrooms or other plants) is because of the historical significance of peyote with Canada’s Indigenous communities.