In addition to making mescaline available for drug discovery, causing plants other than peyote to make mescaline will also enable studies clarifying the hallucinogen's functions in the cacti.

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 contains several psychoactive compounds, primarily mescaline, which is a hallucinogen. Different tribes of peyote people have their own name for the cactus. While it is still a controlled ...

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 ...

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop ... the next 50 years. Peyote grown in their nursery is under the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s ...