![]() ![]() The Peyote Cult is still quite generally considered to be the one outstanding work on peyote. La Barre also explores related issues, such as anthropology, economics, chemistry, botany, pharmacology, and archeology. La Barre looks at the legal aspects of drug use, ritual drug use (including in the Native American Church), and the increasing spread of peyotism from the South-West to other Native American tribes. ![]() The Peyote Cult includes discussions of contemporary drug culture and experiments with altered states of consciousness and psychedelic drugs, including Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Carlos Casteneda. For decades, readers on peyotism have enjoyed Weston La Barre's fascinating original study, which began when the author at age twenty-four, studied the rites of Native American tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and Southward. This is the latest edition (the fifth, enlarged edition), now back in print. ![]() ![]() THE PEYOTE CULT By Weston La Barre The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is the classic work on peyotism, originating in Weston La Barre's studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the 1930s. ![]()
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