More on Peyote
As if yesterday’s Peyote posting wasn’t enough, in which we passed on everything we know about the cactus, and linked to an article about how tourists in Mexico were decimating the wild population, now here comes a story about the Texas variety of Peyote. <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1712&entry_id=1516" title="http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN2861718520071217" onmouseover="window.status=’http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN2861718520071217′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">From Reuters</a> we find out that they are having similar problems with dwindling numbers of peyote plants in the wild. In Texas the problem is not wasted hippies, but stems largely from lands being used for hunting preserves for the wealthy. Dick Cheney often shoots captive animals there.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> The profession seems barely legal in a nation perennially at war with drugs, but in the peyote region there is nothing clandestine about it.<br />
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Morales has a big sign out in front of his modest home that proclaims "Mauro Morales — Peyote Dealer, Buy or Sell Peyote."<br />
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It includes his phone number should any prospective customers pass by.<br />
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"It’s a business," he said with a shrug of the shoulders in a recent interview. "It’s the only income I got."</span><br /></div><br />More after the break…<br /><br />
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