Peyote

Spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) indigenous to the southwest U.S. and Mexico. Peyote produces a drug, also called peyote, whose active substance is mescaline, a nonaddictive hallucinogenic drug that produces visions and changes in perception, time sense, and mood. Peyote-eating rituals are important in the Native American Church.

Source:

The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
by Columbia University Press

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