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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Next year will smoke pipe of peace.
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Or take some peyote. When I was an undergraduate one fraternity brother experimented with it. He experienced colorful bright visions but the peyote upset his stomach so much he vomited first, which he expected. He was pre-med and went on to become an MD and a professor at an Ivy League medical school, a very, very smart guy who lived a little dangerously. He enjoyed riding motorcycles.
"Under the auspices of what came to be known as the Native American Church, in the 19th century, American Indians in more widespread regions to the north began to use peyote in religious practices, as part of a revival of native spirituality. Its members refer to peyote as "the sacred medicine", and use it to combat spiritual, physical, and other social ills. Concerned about the drug's psychoactive effects, between the 1880s and 1930s, U.S. authorities attempted to ban Native American religious rituals involving peyote, including the Ghost Dance. Today the Native American Church is one among several religious organizations to use peyote as part of its religious practice. Some users claim the drug connects them to God."
Peyote - Wikipedia