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Lophophora diffusa, commonly known as false peyote, is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae and one of the species in the Lophophora genus. It is endemic to Mexico in the outskirts of Querétaro . [ 4 ]
L. diffusa subsp. fricii (Habermann) Halda Lophophora jourdaniana Haberman The peyote ( / p eɪ ˈ oʊ t i / ; Lophophora williamsii / l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə w ɪ l i ˈ æ m z i aɪ / ) is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids , [ 2 ] particularly mescaline (see also: cactus alkaloids ). [ 3 ]
In the species Lophophora diffusa and Lophophora fricii, the primary alkaloid is pellotine, followed by anhalonidine in L. fricii and anhalamine in L. diffusa. In species outside the genus Lophophora , the content and variety of cactus alkaloids are significantly lower, but some contain compounds such as hordenine , N-methyltyramine , mescaline ...
Lophophora (/ l ə ˈ f ɒ f ə r ə /) [citation needed] is a genus of spineless, button-like cacti. Its native range covers Texas through Mexico to southwestern Mexico. [ 1 ] The species are extremely slow growing, sometimes taking up to thirty years to reach flowering age (at the size of about a golf ball, excluding the root) in the wild.
Many cacti are known to be psychoactive, containing phenethylamine alkaloids such as mescaline. [1] However, the two main ritualistic (folkloric) genera are Echinopsis, of which the most psychoactive species occur in the San Pedro cactus group (including Echinopsis pachanoi, syn. Trichocereus pachanoi, Echinopsis Peruviana, syn. Trichocereus peruvianus and Echinopsis lageniformis, syn ...
The government has excluded San Pedro Cactus (Echinopsis Pachanoi) and peyote (Lophophora Williamsii) from the list of illicit drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors. This is stated in the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers №408 dated May 23, 2012. [20]
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Mescaline is a psychedelic drug and entheogen, which is also found in some species of the genus Echinopsis (e.g. Echinopsis lageniformis, Echinopsis scopulicola and Echinopsis tacaquirensis) and the species Lophophora williamsii . [18]