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Native Americans already have a legal way to use peyote in the context of spiritual practice.

• etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
  I’m beyond offended that anyone thinks it’s okay to decide that some spiritual practices are okay for certain religious groups or ethnicities and not others. It’s racism.
  • sep_field 6y ago
    it isn't that you aren't allowed to have the spiritual practice, you are welcome to use mescaline (the active ingredient in peyote, which can be synthesized) however you want. It is also available in some other cactuses that aren't near extinct. The intent of the restriction is to keep the harvesting of the peyote plant at a level that hopefully prevents it from going extinct. If everyone was permitted to harvest peyote, it would be available to no one at all very quickly. Native Americans get the exception because the tribal groups that use the plant have a culture of respecting it and being caretakers of it.
  • vmception 6y ago
    Treaties exist outside of our cultural sensibilities. Alongside religious exceptions. Here it is possible to have both simultaneously.