Article: RETURN OF PEYOTE URGED : DRUG USED IN RELIGION, AMERICAN INDIANS TELL COURT.(NEWS)

Article: 2 AMERICAN INDIANS WANT SEIZED PEYOTE BACK.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 11, 1996 ;     695 words ... ... return 250 pounds of peyote. Paul Skyhorse Durant and Buzz Berry asked ... for that opinion. The peyote was found on Nov. 22 when Durant and Berry were stopped ... all over the van.'' Durant said he bought the peyote in Texas from a licensed ...

Article: AMERICAN INDIAN GETS PEYOTE BACK : RULING ON POSSESSION ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 19, 1996 ;     658 words ... ... packed with 10,000 peyote buds a day after Judge Steven Hintz ruled Durant could legally possess ... Hintz released the peyote to Durant, who is the brother of Paul Skyhorse Durant, after he testified ... to possess and use peyote. The judge also ...

Article: JUDGE SETS HEARING ON SEIZED PEYOTE : WITNESSES TO TESTIFY ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... under investigation. Durant and Berry maintain they purchased the peyote from a licensed grower ... order to release the peyote to Durant and Berry. But the ... bank robbery. But Durant's criminal record ... handling or using peyote, Schwartz said ...

Article: JUDGE RETURNS PEYOTE TO AMERICAN INDIANS.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 18, 1996 ;     652 words ... ... tools - to Paul Skyhorse Durant, an American Indian ... Federal law classifies peyote as a drug on the same ... Berry was a passenger in Durant's van at the time of ... two had obtained the peyote in Texas using falsified ... granting authorization to Durant, Redmond said ...

Transcript: Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists'
NPR Morning Edition;  September 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Morning Edition 09-03-2007 Mexico's Peyote Endangered by 'Drug Tourists' Host ... signs that read something like: Save Our Peyote. That hallucinogenic cactus has been ... made the pilgrimage to Mexico to hunt for peyote and consume it recreationally. So now ...

Article: On the peyote road
Natural History;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Most Americans know peyote only as a cactus containing an illegal ... 000 American Indian adherents of the peyote religion, it is a sacrament and a spirit ... according to its inspiration is to follow the peyote road of personal dignity and respect ...

Article: Semi-legal drugs.(peyote grows naturally in only four ...
The Economist (US);  April 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... buttons" of America's most unusual crop: peyote, a small, mind- altering cactus used ... years as an Indian religious sacrament. Peyote-officially known to botanists as Lophophora ... narcotics laws. But the religious use of peyote is allowed for members of the Native American ...