In Texas’s Peyote Gardens

A Lakota journalist investigates efforts to save a disappearing cactus

This week on the Altered States podcast reporter Adreanna Rodriguez gets invited to Texas to harvest peyote, a psychoactive cactus often caught in the crosshairs of the so-called psychedelic Renaissance. When she arrives, she finds a threatened cactus, a community determined to protect it, and an unexpected calling that reconnects her to home.

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