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Peyote Practice in The Native American Church is Legal, But
Perhaps it's best to leave it to the writers if you’re not with an experienced Native American practitioner.
The peyote is a small, spineless cactus that contains psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Peyote is native to Mexico and southwestern Texas.
Mescaline is one of eight hallucinogenic alkaloids derived from the peyote cactus. For thousands of years, North and South American Indian tribes have used slices of the cactus in religious rites called Buttons.
Peyote has a bitter taste, and it can be ground into an off-white powder that is placed into a capsule to be swallowed or sprinkled into a cigarette or marijuana joint to be smoked.
Mescaline is structurally similar to amphetamines with some LSD-like properties.
People can ingest mescaline in several ways. Common ways include eating the dried crowns of the peyote cactus, boiling the cactus to make tea, and taking capsules containing peyote or mescaline. Synthetic forms of mescaline are also available as capsules.
Toxic Dose
Fatalities are rare. We do not have a lot of information about the long-term effects of hallucinogens.
