Or they produce it exactly because animals are entertained by it to spread its spores. Or it's random. Or who the hell knows. 🤷‍♂️

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Every time I see this meme or versions of it I die a thousand times. Mushrooms are the penises of fungus who jizz peacefully in the wind. They WANT to be eaten. Spores travel far.

Psilocybin, if anything, is probably adapted to be attractive to other animals.

Just like peppers, a sort of odd evolution when humans come into play.

Peppers devolved capsaicin to keep mammalian herbivores from eating them and grinding the seeds up. Birds have no capsaicin receptors, happily poop whole seeds everywhere.

Along come humans. "Let's grown and refine that shit!"

jokes on you I'm into that shit

Human: I outsmarted every plant with this MO; no toxic plant can defeat me.

Manchineel Tree: Challenge accepted.

Given the medical/psychological benefits being explored, it could even be "Your resistance only makes me stronger".

Slugs: what effects?

The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!

“Science“

indeed, 'tis poison for body and mind...

Millipedes ·('m toxic, nobody will hurt me", Lemurs "Good stuff"

https://viewtube.io/watch?v=yYXoCHLqr4o

Or those fungi are farming us so we keep spreading and growing them for psychoactive abilities