Hallucinogenic drug with mescaline derived from dried cactus buttons

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1. A small, low, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) of Mexico and southern Texas that has bluish- to grayish-green dome-shaped stems having jointed disk-shaped tubercles with tufts of woolly white hairs and that contains psychoactive alkaloids

   "Huichols speak of the peyote they gather as the flesh of deer, and of the tap root they customarily leave in the ground as its “bones,” from which new plants will grow …"

2. A hallucinogenic drug containing mescaline that is derived from the dried disk-shaped tops of the peyote cactus and is used especially in the religious ceremonies of some Indigenous American peoples

   "In my childhood home, the word “medicine” is how we referred to peyote. … At a very young age, I understood the sacredness of this medicine …"

3. a small, low, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) of Mexico and southern Texas that has bluish- to grayish-green dome-shaped stems having jointed disk-shaped tubercles with tufts of woolly white hairs and that contains psychoactive alkaloids —called also mescal
4. a hallucinogenic drug containing mescaline that is derived from the dried disk-shaped tops of the peyote cactus and is used especially in the religious ceremonies of some Indigenous American peoples —called also mescal

noun

1. A dried disk-shaped top of the peyote cactus that contains psychoactive alkaloids (such as mescaline) and causes hallucinations when ingested

   "Peyote, a small cactus, has been used as a religious sacrament, or “medicine” as it is commonly called, for hundreds of years in Mesoamerica. The top is cut off and dried and is sometimes referred to as a peyote button. It may be chewed, made into a tea, or ground into granular form and, with the addition of water, ingested during peyote services."