Growing in the desolate desert of Northern Mexico and the Southern region of Texas there lies a cactus whose history is as vast as the desert it inhabits. The “ Lophophora Williamsii ,” commonly known ...

Peyote may look like a small, unassuming cactus - but it holds a powerful secret. In this episode, we explore the fascinating ...

Getting high in the Mexican desert. Published 11 years ago. 3min. Mexican and foreign tourists go to the desert to try the peyote cactus, which has psychoactive alkaloids as mescaline.

The desert symbol grows slowly, about an inch a year — it can take six or seven decades for the saguaro cactus to grow an arm — and those 15-to-20-foot saguaros that dot the Sonoran desert can ...

Peyote has long been used in sacred rites by Mexican Indians. Now, the Mexican government and Indian leaders warn that the hallucinogenic cactus is under threat from tourists who consume it ...

REAL DE CATORCE, Mexico – Gisele Beker, a 26-year-old Argentinian, trudged for hours in the scorching sun to the sprawling Wirikuta desert, craving peyote, the cactus hallucinogen locals in Mexico ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, reawakened attention is pushing its natural source, the small, slow-growing peyote cactus, to the brink of extinction. In a new study published in Molecular Plant, Weizmann ...

Today San Pedro is officially recognized by the Native American Church as an alternative to peyote. ... It’s possible that most San Pedro cactus in our desert are this clone.

Different tribes of peyote people have their own name for the cactus. While it is still a controlled substance, U.S. laws passed in 1978 and 1994 allow Native Americans to use, harvest and ...