Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110274 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

peyote. gottlieb
the book presents basic information that can easily be obtained for free on the internet. however it does gather together all the basic essential information on cultivation of mescaline containg cacti.
this said, for £5.73 it's worth the money and is a nice looking book.

Not Sure About This One

The Peyote is the common or native Indian name for a number of different genus of cacti. The cactus shown on the front cover of the book is a Lophophora. This particular plant is banned in the United States and many other countries, but it can be purchased and grown freely in the United Kingdom.

The book looks at growing the plants from the point of view of being able to extract Mescaline from them rather than as a hobby for the cacti enthusiast. Although to be fair it does explain that the plants have been collected so avidly from their original Mexican habitat that they are in danger of extinction in the wild and the plants really need a conservation programme by enthusiastic growers to boost the stock available in cultivation.

The native Indians used to cut and dry the top of the plant and use it as an hallucinatory drug in their tribal ceremonies and this has encouraged various people in the past to attempt the same experience, sometimes with dramatic and dangerous consequences.

It has been recently documented that cultivated plants have nowhere near the potency of drugs in them that those grown in habitat seem to have. Personally I have no wish to find out whether this is true or not. As a cacti enthusiast myself I have several of the plants and would never think of destroying them for such a purpose.