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Semi-legal drugs.(peyote grows naturally in only four Texas counties, and is used by members of the pan-tribal Native American Church)(Brief Article)
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April 3, 1999
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A field full of buttons
MIRANDO CITY, TEXAS
WEBB, Zapata, Jim Hogg and Starr Counties, all in Texas, look much like the rest of the American south-west-lots of parched rangeland, dotted with mesquite, cacti and the occasional ranch. In this desolate region, people are far outnumbered by "buttons" of America's most unusual crop: peyote, a small, mind- altering cactus used for 10,000 years as an Indian religious sacrament.
Peyote-officially known to botanists as Lophophora williamsii-grows naturally only in these four counties, and it cannot be ...
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