What Cactus Fruit Makes You Hallucinate? Unpacking Peyote and Mescaline
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For thousands of years, indigenous peoples in North and South America have used mescaline-containing cacti for spiritual and ceremonial purposes. However, when people ask 'What cactus fruit makes you hallucinate?', they are often mistaken about the source of the psychoactive compound; the hallucinogenic effects come from the fleshy body of the cactus, specifically the buttons of the peyote plant, not its small, mostly inedible fruit.
