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Psychonauts, please take a pass on peyote

Allan Rose Hill
Dec 30, 2024
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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 availabil…

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