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A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote * 2
    #28463557 - 09/09/23 05:28 PM (8 months, 4 days ago)

You've been able to buy peyote online in canada for decades if you know where to look, they claim to be "mass producing" it... V/D



Lophos Pharma is starting to produce the psychoactive cactus, which is legal in Canada but illegal in the U.S. except for as part of Native American religious ceremonies.


IEW OF PEYOTE CACTUS AT THE DESERT NEAR THE TOWN OF REAL DE 14, IN SAN LUIS POTOSI STATE, MEXICO.  (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

A Canadian company is starting to legally mass produce and sell peyote, a cactus that produces the hallucinogen mescaline and is used in religious ceremonies by Indigenous people in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. 

Lophos Pharma is set to make, sell, and research peyote at its 10,000-square foot facility in Napanee, Ontario. While mescaline is illegal under Schedule III of the Canadian drug act, peyote is exempted as long as the mescaline isn’t extracted from it. Peyote is illegal in the U.S, but the Native American Church and members of tribes have a government exemption to use it in ceremonies. It’s also at risk of extinction, something Lophos is trying to address by growing it indoors.

Claire Stawnyczy, chief executive officer of Lophos, told VICE News she believes the publicly-traded company is the only one in Canada that currently has plans to mass produce peyote.

“Indoor cultivation and doing that research around peyote that's really kind of missing and increasing that safe and ethical access... that's our mission,” Stawnyczy said.

VICE News has reached out to Health Canada to find out if there are other companies mass producing peyote and will include their response once they provide it.

Peyote can take up to 16 years to mature enough to harvest, but Lophos plans to shorten the growth cycle.

By next summer, Stawnyczy said the company hopes to offer a small amount of sales of dried peyote buttons—the part of the plant that contains mescaline. The buttons can be consumed to produce effects comparable to LSD or magic mushrooms, including euphoria, a body high, altered perceptions of space and time, and some visuals.

Lophos also has a license from Health Canada, a federal agency, that will allow it to produce mescaline for research. For the next year, that research will focus on analyzing the chemical composition of the drug and its potency. Down the line, Stawnyczy said she hopes to further research on mescaline’s effects on mental health issues.

“We're just big believers in the fact that there is significant promise in these molecules for the treatment of mental health,” she said.

“Most of the money to date has gone into these other molecules. And so we're further down the line with things like psilocybin and MDMA and DMT than we are with mescaline.”

Peyote grows along Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and in northeastern Mexico but it is under threat due to illegal harvesting and habitat loss, as Motherboard previously reported. According to Native News Online, leaders of the Native American Church, which has at least 250,000 members, lobbied the U.S. government last September to protect lands where peyote grows.

The possibility of extinction has prompted a backlash in the U.S. against decriminalizing peyote.



“Peyote is sacred medicine crucial to our religious identity and the survival of our community,” Steven Benally, a Navajo spiritual leader and peyote practitioner told the LA Times. “The spiritual healing power it offers is only attainable through Native American protocol.”

Stawnyczy said her husband Evan, who is Ojibway and Indigenous Affairs advisor for Lophos, see their company as a potential solution because their peyote won’t be coming from an endangered location.

“Plant medicines, such as peyote, have proven to be effective in our communities and there is tremendous potential for healing here,” Evan told VICE News.

“Illegal and improper harvesting of peyote is one of the major reasons that this traditional plant has neared extinction and I'm hopeful that by Lophos providing an ethically sourced peyote option, we can provide a positive example for others while reducing the impact to the Indigenous peyote lands and their traditional caretakers.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjpdw/canada-legal-peyote


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome]
    #28463562 - 09/09/23 05:30 PM (8 months, 4 days ago)

Why does Vice have to contact Health Canada? How about letting this shit fly under the radar?


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome]
    #28463683 - 09/09/23 07:38 PM (8 months, 4 days ago)

Because the govt overdid it with all the psy ops and now they need to give people psychedelics to heal them back into a more manageable state is why, you think vice isn't in cahoots with their overlords?


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: jack_straw2208]
    #28463703 - 09/09/23 07:56 PM (8 months, 4 days ago)

:tinfoil:


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome]
    #28463936 - 09/10/23 12:25 AM (8 months, 4 days ago)

Oh man I was just joking at first but now I'm sure!


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: jack_straw2208] * 2
    #28464065 - 09/10/23 07:39 AM (8 months, 4 days ago)

I hear peyote cultivation as an ornamental is big in Japan.

Let the indigenous folks have exclusive rights to wild peyote, and let the rest of us grow it at home. I don't believe anyone has hegemonic rights to the psychedelic experience, though.


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: Blue Cthulhu]
    #28464160 - 09/10/23 10:02 AM (8 months, 4 days ago)

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Blue Cthulhu said:
Let the indigenous folks have exclusive rights to wild peyote...



The peyote cult replaced mescal beans in modern times, with a Christianized observance, and it's founder was half white.

His descendants live in an Airstream trailer, on public benefits, and listen to Insane Clown Posse.

I can name names, but of the same name.

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improper harvesting of peyote





Vigor and water is conserved inside. New buttons grow from a long tap root that would be physically impossible to remove, entirely, by hand.

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Lophos also has a license from Health Canada, a federal agency



So what can fairly be called a dept of the federal govt is blaming an individual forager, on foot.

What reaches to the bottom of the root. What covers it over, permanently. How could it be starved of what little resources it gets, naturally.

It could only be threatened by over development, by a licensed, too-big-to-fail.

Do any natives, especially of Quanah's ilk, drive that bulldozer. :awesomenod:

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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: durian_2008] * 1
    #28464167 - 09/10/23 10:11 AM (8 months, 4 days ago)

Claire Stawnyczy (must not be her Indian name) chief executive officer of Lophos, told VICE News she believes the publicly-traded company is the only one in Canada...

:wonka:

You're supposed to follow some 'white rabbit' type-of figure to where it grows.

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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: durian_2008]
    #28464551 - 09/10/23 05:02 PM (8 months, 3 days ago)

When you are like "oh someone commented on my post" then you find out its Durian. Here is notice you going on my ignore list Durian, its always incomprehensible rambling from you. I don't hate you but think my shroomery experience may be better if i never have to see your posts.


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome]
    #28465396 - 09/11/23 12:51 PM (8 months, 2 days ago)

Why don't you use your superior social skills. Pick out a single phrase, and ask me what I am referring to.

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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: durian_2008] * 2
    #28465458 - 09/11/23 02:10 PM (8 months, 2 days ago)

I appreciate durian’s posts as reminding me of the inscrutability of reality


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome] * 2
    #28465492 - 09/11/23 03:02 PM (8 months, 2 days ago)

As a person struggling with mental health I would LOVE to see a a cactus explosion. It's really underrated and a lot of people are turned off by the cost, the idea of having to drink sludge, puking, and a very long lasting experience.

It sounds rough but it's the kindest of all psychedelics IMO. Gentle insight and it's like you're in a feminine presence that'll call you out on your BS without feeling like you're losing your mind like on mush. Along with that, for me, it taught me how to really meditate and also forgive myself for being a fuck-up. Nobody goes through life unscathed and I realized that my biggest obstacle to becoming a better person and reaching my potential and living "right" was how much energy I spent on self-hating and shame and regret. Huge epiphany and massive weight lifted. Self forgiveness is tits.

Absolutely amazing. It has crazy healing power and unexplored potential as a microdosing medicine.

Fingers crossed that the world catches on soon.

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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: yabbahabba]
    #28465630 - 09/11/23 05:33 PM (8 months, 2 days ago)

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and unexplored potential as a microdosing medicine.





Yes


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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: viraldrome]
    #28466516 - 09/12/23 01:47 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)

I would love to see these cacti more accessible. :mushroom2:

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Re: A Canadian Company Is Legally Making and Selling Psychedelic Peyote [Re: Blue Cthulhu]
    #28466879 - 09/12/23 07:19 PM (8 months, 1 day ago)

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I appreciate durian’s posts as reminding me of the inscrutability of reality




The peyote church is not strictly native, and natives mostly live as any average person. Got a counter point?

I personally know descendants of Quanah Parker who ruined the plants as laborers, yet free use of the plant and making more of it is not allowed for every respectful person.

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