Mescaline Mescaline is legal only for certain religious groups (such as the Native American Church) and in scientific and medical research. In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Oregon could ban the use of mescaline in Native American religious ceremonies. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in 1993 allowed the use of peyote in religious ceremony, but in 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that the RFRA is unconstitutional when applied against states. Many states, including the state of Utah, have legalized peyote usage with "sincere religious intent", or within a religious organization, regardless of race. While mescaline-containing cacti
Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals For over two millennia, texts in Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine have recorded medicinal plants that are also hallucinogens and psychedelics. Some are familiar psychoactive plants in Western herbal medicine (e.g., "làngdàng" 莨菪 ""Hyoscyamus niger", black henbane"), but several Chinese plants have not been noted as hallucinogens in modern works (e.g., "yúnshí" 雲實 ""Caesalpinia decapetala", cat's claw" flowers). Chinese herbals are an important resource for the history of botany, for instance, Zhang Hua's c. 290 "Bowuzhi" is the earliest record of the psilocybin mushroom "xiàojùn" 笑菌 (lit. "laughing mushroom", ""Gymnopilus junonius", laughing gym"). There