Addio al peyote, il cactus magico degli indios del Messico che ha "fatto sognare" generazioni di giovani turisti europei ed americani trascinandoli carponi nella ricerca del frutto tra i sassi della Sierra. Addio a quel minuscolo ciotolo secco e immangiabile che sa di calce e anche alla mescalina di cui è ricco, quella che ha regalato allucinazioni e visioni agli scrittori beat in fuga dal Moloch dell'imperialismo. Addio miraggi. Secondo il Financial Times, che riprende un articolo uscito sull'Universal di Città del Messico, il "Nahuati" (o "Lophophora williamsii", nel suo nome scientifico) sarebbe ormai in via d'estinzione. Un fantasma. Non ci sarebbero - spiega l'articolo - prove concrete della sua prossima estinzione ma fonti accademiche segnalano che è sempre più difficile trovare il cactus nel deserto a nord del paese. Il peyote è una pianta molto particolare, ci mette trent'anni a crescere e il saccheggio di mezzo secolo l'ha fatta diventare almost impossible to find. It was in fact in the sixties, in the wake of the books by anthropologist Carlos Castaneda - Teachings of Don Juan at all - hundreds of young Americans, including Kerouac, made the journey in the desert from Texas to the discovery of peyote and its hallucinations. And, say the experts, began to cause the loss only because instead of cutting his crown green cactus offering the ability to regenerate, usually tourists rip the whole plant, killing her.
Today, what is more concerned about academics like Professor Pedro Medellin University of San Luis Potosi is the reduction of biodiversity or the loss of the flow of Western tourists in search of virtual worlds but the defense of the culture of huicoles, the Indians who always use peyote in their religious ceremonies. For them, the hallucinations are a form of communication with the gods, and every year, once a year, shamans huicol walk for 500 km on foot in search of their cactus. "We want to protect it - tells the shaman is called a Universal Andrés Carrillo - but no one respects the peyote. The first time I ate it I was nine years old and there was a lot, today it is almost impossible to find." But the thing that worries me is that without peyote - he says - huicol children can not understand. "Peyote is a book, a teacher. You can not learn if you've never eaten peyote." The use of peyote dates back over two thousand years ago. Along with religious ceremonies the Indians used it against the toothache, as an analgesic, but it seems to have curative powers for asthma and rheumatism. As the coca leaf is a sacred plant, revered for its properties. And as with cocaine was us, after he discovered, to make it dangerous, expensive, illegal. And endangered.
with drugs just do not know, before the omelettes exaggerated with the gangue, then the selfish questo.NON DO MORE FOR ALL PEYOTE ....
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