At Chacruna: Native American Statement Regarding Decriminalization of Peyote

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Steven Benally, Sandor Iron Rope, Arlen Lightfoot, Andrew Tso and Dawn D. Davis

The National Council of Native American Churches (NCNAC) and the Board of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative (IPCI) recognize that humans have utilized entheogenic plants for their health and wellbeing for millennia and respectfully requests that current efforts to decriminalize these relationships should consider the complexities of each plant or fungal medicine. This statement addresses the particular complex relationship of the law, our history, and social/cultural realities in the U.S. to the peyote cacti (Lophophora williamsii)... continue reading.

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