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Originally Posted by soggypicklemuncher
I read somewhere, a long time ago so I don't remember a whole lot, that the U.S. government was just picking on Native Americans by making hallucinogenic plants they used in rituals illegal.
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I have some friends in New Mexico who live on the
Pueblo Res outside of
Taos..
Basically the way it works is that if an individual wants to be able to grow, possess or order a plant like Peyote or Datura for ' religious purposes' they have to be registered and documented as a Native American and be properly licensed to possess or obtain hallucenogenic plants or cactii for the purpose of 'spiritual enlightenment' during a religious or spiritual ceremony..
Yes, the government has been busting their balls for years, but whats unusual about that, sadly?
We exterminated millions of a beautiful and proud indigenous people like they were bugs, and forced the few suriviors to live on whatever pitiful and insufficient land handouts the federal government allowed them.
I get all worked up about it, don't even get me started..
But yeah, they can order this stuff on the Net if they want to do so. They just have to enter the appropriate requested info that the website is required to ask for, prior to any such sale..
But it would be cheaper and easier to just drive out to the desert with
Ye Olde Handy Cactus Identification Book and a backpack..
