In 1994, an amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally granted Native Americans freedom to use the peyote—a very slow-growing cactus containing the psychedelic compound mescaline—for traditional ceremonial purposes. In recent years though, the skyrocketing interest in psychedelics has threatened the availability of this medicine due to overharvesting, poaching, and environmental degradation in the plant's natural habitat of southern Texas and northern Mexico. — Read the rest
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