The peyote cactus, or Lophophora williamsii, is unassuming at first glance. It’s small and spineless, unlike other cacti. But inside the small buttons that grow from the plant lies a hallucinogenic ...
Yahoo: Peyote sacred to Native Americans threatened by psychedelic renaissance and development
Yahoo Noticias en Español: El peyote, sagrado para indígenas norteamericanos, se ve amenazado por renacimiento psicodélico
El peyote, sagrado para indígenas norteamericanos, se ve amenazado por renacimiento psicodélico
Peyote is a small, button shaped cactus native to Mexico and southern parts of the United States. Potent compounds in peyote, such as mescaline, cause it to have a hallucinogenic effect in humans.
Though peyote — a hallucinogenic cactus — has been used for hundreds of years by Mexican Indians, it only became popular outside of indigenous communities after Carlos Castaneda, then a student at the ...
Los Angeles Times: Why are some Native Americans fighting efforts to decriminalize peyote?
MEXICAN WATER, Ariz. — For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American religion from extinction means preserving those diminishing lands where hallucinogenic peyote grows wild.