Don Alejandro the shaman shakes a rattle stick, provoking a sensuous cascade of clicking sounds. He chants softly in the Peruvian night, invoking spirits to assist in healing and enlivening our small ...

I first learned about it while broadcasting at KVMR-FM, a hippie-staffed talk and music station that catered to alternative lifestyle folks in the northern Sierra Nevada. One guy in the office ...

At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On Tuesday afternoon, fresh Christmas wreathes ...

Q: I live in the Tucson Foothills area where I planted three San Pedro cactus near an outdoor wash area six years ago. During the cold months, the temperature can easily drop below freezing at least ...

An analysis of mummified heads and cadavers discovered on the Southern coast of Peru has pushed back the earliest known date of psychedelic cactus use and other psychoactive plants. Toxicology reports ...

Kihikihi resident John Brown admires the flowers on his San Pedro cactus on Tuesday when it flowered for the first time. On the right is a close-up of a second flowering cactus. Photo / Dean Taylor ...

A selfish man-child's Chilean quest to drink mescaline extracted from a San Pedro cactus turns into a more conventional sort of trip in Sebastian Silva's emphatically goofy but ultimately sentimental ...