Explore the sacred role of peyote in Native American culture and efforts to protect it from environmental and human threats.

have raised the alarm about lack of access to peyote, which they reverently call “the medicine.” They say poaching and excessive harvesting of the slow-growing cactus, which flowers and ...

have raised the alarm about lack of access to peyote, which they reverently call “the medicine.” They say poaching and excessive harvesting of the slow-growing cactus, which flowers and ...

Peyote is a small, spineless cactus plant found in the Southwest best known for its hallucinogenic effects. It’s also a ...

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman who lived in the tiny border town of Mirando City in South Texas, played an ...

It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be found growing naturally, nestled under thorny mesquite, acacia and blackbrush. The cactus contains a spectrum of ...