The law in each place,
and who can be trusted.

Peyote is a slow-growing cactus that the IUCN Red List assesses as Vulnerable, and it is the sacrament of the Native American Church. In 2020 the National Council of Native American Churches and the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative asked that decriminalisation efforts leave peyote out.

Colorado drew the same line in statute. Its natural medicine law says that “mescaline” does not include peyote, Lophophora williamsii, after Indigenous community members asked for that exclusion.

So we point that demand to cultivated San Pedro, never wild plants. It carries the same primary alkaloid. Every figure behind this position is sourced on the position page.