A family court judge ruled Tuesday that a 4-year-old boy cannot take peyote at American Indian spiritual ceremonies. In his decision, Judge Graydon W. Dimkoff wrote that "peyote is dangerous, and in ...

Drug tourists, mining companies and farming encroachment are threatening the Wixárika people’s annual hunt for the psychedelic plant in the Mexican desert. The Chihuahuan Desert in the Mexican state ...

Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 5, No. 2 (7 DECEMBER 2011), pp. 661-675 (15 pages) Lophophora williamsii (peyote) is a cactus whose crowns are commercially harvested for ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s ...

Those who enjoy taking trips of the psychedelic, illegal variety will be pleased to learn that magic mushrooms, LSD and peyote do not seems to cause detriments to users’ health, new research finds.