RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas (AP) — The state of Texas licenses a handful of Americans to sell peyote, but it’s becoming a hard way to make a living.
Dealers who supply it to tribe members say finding the grayish-green cactus that grows wild along the U.S.-Mexico border is more difficult than ever.
The drug is illegal except for use in some American Indian religious ceremonies.
Many ranchers prefer to plow peyote under to make way for grazing cattle. Others lease their property to deer hunters or oil and gas companies. The result is over-harvesting of remaining stocks, making the cactus even more scarce.
Peyote contains the mind-altering juice mescaline, which produces a dreamlike delirium for up to 12 hours. Users can chew on it, smoke it or boil it in water to make a drug-infused tea.
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