In the early afternoon of Oct. 10, 2000, more than a dozen Utah County sheriff's deputies wielding a search warrant banged on the door of James Mooney and his Oklevueha EarthWalks Native American ...

Most of my life it’s been boo, booze and blow. I didn’t get into trips until I was 42, in 1957, when a friend of mine in Santa Fe introduced me to peyote. A Taos Indian had given a dozen peyote ...

Steven Benally is a roadman, or "healer," in the Native American tradition of religious worship. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American ...

Peyote is illegal under federal law, except for use in some American Indian religious ceremonies. Since the mid-1970s, the state has licensed a small number of people to sell it to members of the ...

There’s something about mescaline. Prehistoric desert dwellers of the American Southwest and Mexico figured as much out when they figured out that eating peyote — the small, spineless cactus dotting ...

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish ...

Peyote, a small cactus, is often ingested for its psychedelic effects that can mimic those of LSD. Jane Fonda says that taking peyote with costar Lily Tomlin was a terrible experience. The pair ...