From Texas Standard: In ecological terms, South Texas is known as brush country – it’s home to lots of thorny shrubs, trees and palms. Its humid climate makes it similar to parts of Northern Mexico, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Benally is a roadman, or "healer," in the Native American tradition of religious worship. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times) ...

Peyote, a small cactus, is often ingested for its psychedelic effects that can mimic those of LSD. Jane Fonda says that taking peyote with costar Lily Tomlin was a terrible experience. The pair ...

Growing in the desolate desert of Northern Mexico and the Southern region of Texas there lies a cactus whose history is as vast as the desert it inhabits. The “Lophophora Williamsii,” commonly known ...

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some ...

Peyote is a small, spineless, button-shaped cactus capable of producing hallucinatory effects upon ingestion. While there have been movements in recent years to protect indigenous peoples’ religious ...

Andres Carillo, a Huichol Indian shaman, uses the peyote plant to create these artworks depicting the visions he has after consuming the cactus. The Huichol have asked the Mexican government to ...

For many Native American Church members who call this region the "peyote gardens," the plant is sacrosanct and an inextricable part of their prayer and ceremony. It’s believed to be a natural healer ...

A Katy man was arrested Monday after he was allegedly caught growing the hallucinogenic cactus peyote in his home. Alex Noorian, 31, also allegedly had psychedelic mushrooms, THC wax and 35 marijuana ...

Christopher Rushing, chief executive officer of Oklevueha Native American Church, said his church practices the spiritual use of hallucinogenic plants as part of its worship. (Photo by Greg ...

Though peyote — a hallucinogenic cactus — has been used for hundreds of years by Mexican Indians, it only became popular outside of indigenous communities after Carlos Castaneda, then a student at the ...