For many Native American Church members who call this region the “peyote gardens,” the plant ... the primary one being the hallucinogen mescaline, and is coveted for those psychedelic properties.

Throughout the study, they compared mescaline manufacture in peyote to the significantly different way in which it is made in the San Pedro cactus, gaining more insights into the biology of both. ...

Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American people for millennia. It contains several psychoactive compounds, primarily mescaline, which is a hallucinogen.

The tops of the peyote plants contain mescaline, an alkaloid drug with hallucinogenic effects. The Native American Church of North America, also known as Peyotism, was developed into a religion ...

It’s in an area Native Americans call the peyote gardens because the spineless cactus containing the hallucinogen mescaline, a plant they hold sacred, only grows naturally in this region and in ...