No harm in Navajos’ peyote use, study finds

Religion News ^ | Nov 3rd, 2005

[dirtboy]

The five-year study set out to find scientific proof for the Navajos’ belief that the substance, which contains the hallucinogen mescaline, is not hazardous to their health even when used frequently.

I'm against making peyote or magic mushrooms or marijuana illegal (the absurdity of making something that grows naturally comes to mind).

However, I also question the results of any study that sets out to prove a point and then, surprise, reaches the desired conclusion.

[laney]

These study's proably involve the use of what ever they are studying to come to the end conclusion...

[Jaysun]

What about whites? Is peyote safe for whites too?

[kingattax]

Peyote Pong

[laney]

Whites as in the drugs or the people?

[laney]

I thought they were called Peyote Buttons?

[kingattax]

lol...i was giving someone a ping to the thread.....but i call it a "pong" and you're right about the buttons :)

[laney]

LOL..I gotcha!

[Maceman]

I can believe this. I did LSD a few times in college back in the '60s, and as soon as I stopped everything went back to norbal.

[FourtySeven]

Yeah, anything that makes you puke uncontrollably can't be bad for you.

[Jaysun]

Whites as in the drugs or the people?

The people. The "study" only mentions Navajos.

[laney]

Does it? I do not think I ever did a Payote Button...

[laney]

Oh not sure? I know Indians cannot handle Alcohol because they are not use to it like Caucassion people who introduced them to it..

[FourtySeven]

From what I've heard, if you don't puke after doing payote, you won't get the "full effect". So, I do think it's part of the "process" so to speak.

[headsonpikes]

I'm against making peyote or magic mushrooms or marijuana illegal

I'm with you! I'm very surprised at the number of posters on this site who think that monitoring and/or destroying God's own creation is a proper function of the Federal government, in addition to the arrest and punishment of those who make so bold as to defy the government's peremptory prohibitions on consumption of these vegetable products.

I always find this attitude demonstrates an alarming trust of the 'progressive' social-engineering potential of the State, a conditioned mental state I expect among the lefties, but not among self-described conservatives.

[beyond the sea]

An excellent drug in the right head.

;-)

[Cedar]

Mushrooms mess up the mind.

[SunkenCiv]

The Harvard people are looking for volunteers... ;')

[Osage Orange]

I like a good morel.....