https://teddit.zaggy.nl/r/Psychonaut/comments/18mth6c/peyote_is_the_darling_of_the_psychedelics/
Honestly this whole thread is a cesspool, pure psychic damage. There are literally functional alternatives, but still these self-enlightened egolords can’t keep their fucking hands off an endangered plant. The prevailing attitude looks to be “Its there, so I i am entitled to plunder it”
i actually looked into this and there is a way to harvest peyote sustainably (cutting precisely above the root and leaving some green with a clean and sanitized knife each time) but white techbro psychonauts are fucking idiots and just start whacking at it with a machete haphazardly, there are a lot of researchers that have them in a greenhouse but the key issue is root rot and too much watering, the greenhouse also has to get very hot so setting up a microclimate just for the cacti is expensive (re: capitalists prefer the cheap method of going out and ripping everything out of the ground for free)
imo i dont think there is anything wrong with doing peyote or magic mushrooms or whatever, especially when it serves a medical purpose (like ptsd research), but you should be growing it sustainably so that the people that have rituals about going out in the wild and getting them and maintaining them arent screwed over (which afaik is the main complaint from indigenous groups). the plus side to growing at home is that you are helping preserve biodiversity, esp if you partake in guerilla planting of excess seeds. guerilla planting is the mvp and you ostensibly need to grow it at home to do that.
i guerilla plant all sorts of endangered species in microclimates where they will outcompete invasive ones, its a very important thing to do and getting the seeds isnt actually that hard. whats hard is conservation societies dont have a complex understanding of local microclimates like a local does. ive been able to successfully purge non native grasses from huge swathes of local meadows over the past 10 years. when you do that it leads to a flourishing of native plants and wildlife, the grasses really are a keystone species that bring all the native stuff back in so many areas.
techbros ask the indigenous for their techniques challenge (impossible). Do you have resources for people to get into guerilla planting (🦍🌱ing)?
crime pays but botany doesnt is probably the best channel on youtube for it, but really you need to go to your local conservation society and go to local universities and take a couple of local conservation classes. i totally recommend it, really opens your eyes to how much bullshit we’ve done to the environment and makes you think about how to live in harmony with the local stuff
also opens your eyes to fun foods youve never heard of before which is a personal favorite of mine, eating plants no one has heard of but are local and great and grow like weeds. also another thing is ive drastically reduced mosquito populations in my area because native plants are sucking up all that water and not letting it sit and fester. its my opinion that mosquitoes are a symptom of a human infested environment, where we have destroyed the fuck out of everything that maintains balance.