Cacti and their magical properties are quickly becoming more and more common knowledge. heck even my little pedro in my dorm last semester sparked a visitor to ask "dude...are you gonna eat that?". Not only has the online trade for cuttings and live plants boomed but dried flesh, arguably dangerous for the legal status of the cactus, has become more commonplace and not just online either. i walked into a head shop back in march and they had dried san pedro chips in bags with right alongside the other bags of edible/medicinal herbs. i asked the owner if he was aware that the dried flesh, even if sold as non consumable, was a container of a schedule 1 substance. He then kindly asked me to leave.
whats next? a surge of youtube videos? this pattern is all too familiar. all this attention is eventually going to lead in a crusade to ban the plant just as their has been with salvia. Do you think San Pedro should be kept more obscure as it has been in the past?
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