Was Jesus Christ a mushroom?

John Allegro, a British scholar and proficient Semitic linguist, claimed that Jesus and his disciples were a symbolic representation of a psychedelic mushroom cult in 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.' He argued that Christian beliefs and traditions had roots in fertility cults based on hallucinogenic mushrooms, noting that biblical stories concealed a psychedelic symbolism. His views were widely dismissed as speculative.