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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

For the Huichol Indians, the desert mountains here are sacred, a cosmic portal with major mojo, where shamans collect the peyote that fuels the waking dreams that hold the universe together.

Peyote may look like a small, unassuming cactus - but it holds a powerful secret. In this episode, we explore the fascinating biology and cultural history of Lophophora williamsii, a plant known ...

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 ...

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 ...