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• n  a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons
• n  the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

• Some of their practices go back 2,000 and 3,000 years to the peyote and mush room and morning-glory cults of the ancient Aztecs and Toltecs.
• They've looked at the health effects of psychoactive sacramentals (think peyote) and the spiritual preferences of neo-pagans (think Wiccans and druids).
• While the "peyote priest" fussed with the sand-painting, a tin tub full of water was boiling.

• mescal
• mezcal
• Lophophora williamsii
• mescaline

News & Articles

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• News : LIVE: The Night Parquet Courts Killed Disco At The Echo (06/05/13)
  Parquet Courts The Echo Los Angeles, CA June 05, 2013 Seeing Parquet Courts live wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be. But that's probably because I rewatched their " Light Up Gold Road Trip " documentary earlier that afternoon. As it turns out, the New York-based indie punk rockers weren't shotgunning beers, struggling to form sentences in Spanish, or eating peyote and riding ...
  June 6, 2013 - Filter Magazine

Quotes

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• Jon Bruning in NTV
  Salvia is a powerful hallucinogen that can be purchased legally. This legislation will make it illegal and put it on par with other powerful drugs like peyote, psychedelic mushrooms and LSD,said Attorney General Bruning. "Several other...
• Mark Shurtleff in San Diego Union Tribune
  If the bill passes, "if you're a Native American of a federally recognized tribe in a bona fide church ritual and you want to use peyote, fine. If you're a white, wannabe Indian who wants to deal drugs, you'll be prosecuted," Shurtleff said.
• Robert Stone in New York Times
  I never really got the Warhol thing,Mr. Stone said. "Back then the concept of bohemia wasn'ta mass phenomenon. We still thought of it as kind of a coterie thing, and we were a little snobbish. When we started doing the drugs - peyote and...