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The Decline of American Peyote (vice.com)
dmoberhaus writes: An investigation into the decline of America's peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus that is critically important to the rituals of the Native American Church, the largest pan-tribal religious organization in the U.S. Motherboard spoke with Dawn Davis, a researcher using satellite data to track the destruction of peyote's habitat, as well as Salvador Johnson, one of only four people who is licensed to harvest and sell peyote in the U.S. by the DEA. "In 2011, Davis traveled to the peyote gardens for the first time and met with Johnson," reports Motherboard. "Davis said that Johnson was following many conservation best practices, such as cycling through the areas where peyote is harvested, but this hadn't slowed the steady decrease in the size and quantity of peyote buttons in his harvests. Today, the biggest threats to peyote continue to be rapid land development, poaching, and rooting by feral pigs -- problems that responsible harvesting by peyoteros can't solve."
While there has been an increase in the number of indigenous people growing peyote in greenhouses, this is only a temporary solution to the conservation crisis. Davis is advocating for conservation easements or tax breaks for landowners to encourage the protection of peyote. She also said it will be necessary to push for the DEA to reschedule peyote, which is still considered a Schedule I substance that has "no currently accepted medical use." This makes it exceedingly hard for individuals to become licensed peyoteros.
While there has been an increase in the number of indigenous people growing peyote in greenhouses, this is only a temporary solution to the conservation crisis. Davis is advocating for conservation easements or tax breaks for landowners to encourage the protection of peyote. She also said it will be necessary to push for the DEA to reschedule peyote, which is still considered a Schedule I substance that has "no currently accepted medical use." This makes it exceedingly hard for individuals to become licensed peyoteros.
Can I found an "ancient reiligon" tht happens to require meth and orgies and killing traitors (lobbyists) as an integral part of its "belief system"?
I mean who would object?
And who would dare to 'offend my religion"? Iâ(TM)d sue for discrimination!
Or does it need to be so old, that the one who knew it is a scam, is dead and forgotten?
Link is to wrong story
The link sends you to the article for Microsoft's office bing search!
... since it's the same as the article below. I don't care about Office, but I sure care about peyote!
Maybe check the links in the article, editor?
we're expanding the port so as to be able to gas up the big boats.. cease fire stand down,, this is not a hologram or hallucination.. the bleeding must be stopped before the healing can begin. that's the spirit..
Not caring much that a plant containing a hallucinogenic substance is in decline.
I prefer religions that promote the well-being of one's self and others through acts of self-improvement including the pursuit of medicine that treats and cures. That is in opposition to religions that involve beating on drums repetitively at all hours of the night and going into states of stupor or idiocity using intoxicating substances.
Pigs are an invasive species in the wilds of North America. There is no conservation argument for protecting them under hunting regulations. Just lift all of the hunting regs and give hunters a standard meat value of a few bucks per pound donated to a charity, and you'll see the problem dry up quickly.
15 Comments and still no one bothered to provide the correct link... sigh. Must be this one I assume:
The Decline of American Peyote
When CmdrTaco & co left and sold it to some vulture.
Nowadays its purpose is only, to be a trap for some poor Internet addicts like you and me.
And I guess they thought "addict is addict", and hence drugs and hence peyote.
Or is this the noob/leet version of the Dunning-Kruger effect, where you falsely assume I'm an iTard, when really, you're the loser who's still using QWERTY and ASCII.
Well, let me blow your mind: https://neo-layout.org/
You're of course right. It's their body. Period.
I guess I did not expect Slashdot to be sane.
The founder of AA felt psychadelics were so important to combating alcoholism that he resigned from AA when the board refused to make it one of the twelve steps.
So go ahead and criminalize (in 1972, as a political weapon) substances that societies have used for at least 180,000 years and see what the repercussions might be.
Here's an example of where conservatism is wise.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Because the SENIOR EDITOR apparently can't be bothered to do his fucking job;
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
To whom it may concern; Whatever that idiot is getting paid, I'll do it for 10% less.
The state is great. Lets licenses four people. As for pot, eh.
That I forgot I was on Slashdot and tried to swipe left.
Why does the link take me somewhere completely off topic?
Did you see the size of that chicken?
They all *say* they do the former.
In reality, they *all* rape children, murder, terrorize, light themselves on fire, etc.
Of course they also lost the ability to accept reality.
Because that is what religious schizophrenia is.
Lol omg... please cite!
You are a prime example of what drugs can do to people. Willing to make up any old shit to justify your addiction.
That's a shame.
I'll volunteer a portion of my home to raise some of the little cacti if it will help...
On a trawl of property (I was looking for somewhere warmer to relocate to for health reasons) I happened across a nursery on a little island in the Mediterranean sea which had quite a lot of the stuff growing in neat rows, of course, they only used the latin name on the labels.
I've even found a plant growing on someone's window along with the rest of their cacti collection, they hadn't a clue what it actually was...great thing, latin.
As there's apparently no problem cultivating it, other than the obvious legal ones, TFA should have had a 'wild' somewhere in the title..the wild populations are under threat, the actual plant itself isn't doesn't appear to be endangered, though a thorough harvest of seeds from the remaining wild populations should be carried out and then distributed to 'interested parties' globally to help widen the genetic diversity of the cultivated specimens grown in areas of the planet where they've less legal worries about doing so, obviously with the sole aim of the eventual reintroduction of these specimens back into their native habitats...
Drugs were made illegal because assholes like Timothy Leary scared the shit out of normal Americans. He was going to give your kids LSD, and then they'd change their personalities and never come home again. He has a lot to answer for.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
He was kicked off the board amicably... by the rest of the board.
https://aaagnostica.org/2015/05/10/bill-wilsons-experience-with-lsd/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W. (search for "LSD")
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/7bx7bd/addicts-are-tripping-on-shrooms-to-find-god-and-get-sober (search for "Wilson")
(reposted with links; really, Slashdot, no autolinking?)
Bill Wilson’s Experience with LSD
Bill W. (search for "LSD")
People with Addiction Are Tripping on Shrooms to Find God and Get Sober (search for "Wilson")
The founder of AA felt psychadelics were so important to combating alcoholism that he resigned from AA when the board refused to make it one of the twelve steps.
AA members are heavy users of caffeine and nicotine.
Ever notice how the people who seem to have a lot to answer for mostly just end up rolling in praise?
It's midnight pacific and it is still up with the wrong link.
Seems like some of these submitters/editors need to be scrutinized more thoroughly. Guess BeauHD is getting kickbacks for that zdnet link.