Native Americans who use peyote as part of a religious ritual show no long-term negative health effects and actually fare better than recovering alcoholics, according to Harvard researchers. A ...

Native American and preservationist advocates are sounding the alarm about an imminent “peyote crisis.” The crisis started decades ago, but recently has been amplified by pharmaceutical interests in ...

A study of the effects of peyote on American Indians found no evidence that the hallucinogenic cactus caused brain damage or psychological problems among people who used it frequently in religious ...

A batch of scientifically studied peyote – a holy “medicine” to many Indigenous peoples – was about to go up in smoke. It was February 2024, and the Scottsdale Research Institute had just received ...

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 ...