Posted on 01/12/2025 5:43:41 AM PST by Strict9
“This is a Native American sacred medicine and we don’t want people messing around with it,” said a Navajo member of the church from a congregation in Rio Grande City, Texas, who asked not to be identified. “The Natives people don’t like it. White people shouldn’t mess around with it.”
The Native American Church originated in the late 19th century in the Oklahoma Territory after peyote was introduced
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they sound like a bunch of racists
Maybe they can grow some private supply?
it takes years for that stuff to grow- ain’t nobody got time for that!
Tobacco’s legal. Look at all the fun the world has had with that! 👶
They found an anonymous racist Indian and wrote an article about it.
I’m no Columbo, but all the “indians” in the article have names like Jose Sanchez and Guadeloupe Hernandez— I’m starting to think these are just mexicans who like to smoke the dope?
“””””Under US federal law, mescaline is a controlled substance, but a 1994 exemption to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use”””””
Clinton created a lot of new racist stuff.
She’s right. White people shouldn’t mess with it. Neither should any other color of people.
Let’s face facts...the Southwestern Natives were all Mexican until the treaty. Then, anyone north of the border became Native American, everyone south of it became Mexican.
So are they going to pass on the benefits of Western tech and culture as well?
I’m going to take the other dude if this. I’m sure fakers join in to get stoned, but peyote is a real aspect of some native American religions, comparable to wine in Christian churches. During prohibition sacred wine was exempt, but the Feds banned Peyote and then in a devastating blow to religious liberty, Scalia wrote the opinion upholding Federal interference in religion if it is facially neutral.
We conservatives should look for opportunities to build bridges. Some polls say native Americans voted the most pro Trump of any racial group. It would be nice to support them in something that is, for them, genuinely conservative.
*other side of this” 😭
IMHO, Hispanic is a misnomer. I’d venture those labelled as such have more Amerindian genetics than Spanish.
Cultural
Not racial
I would venture that they are 4-foot-tall Aztec Indians
Don’t the Native Americans know it’s the Puerto Rica d that are doing it?
How did the pastafarians vote?
Nope, it is a,product of the earth, not meant for any 1 group! If Indians can use it for ritual reasons, the so can’t anyone else if they have a mind to. Just because someone is of Indian descent doesn’t mean the plant was created exclusively for them! Pretty greedy and selfish of them to claim its only for them. Now, if they wanna plant farms of it privately, then yeah, they can ban anyone they like from partaking of private produce- u til then though, nope, it is not THEIR own private stash
“Psychedelic Cactus” - sounds like a good name for a rock band, to paraphrase Dave Barry.
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