To now start poaching their peyote is just criminal.

现在开始偷猎他们仙人掌简直就是犯罪。

They rediscover peyote and create this ceremony around it that proved to be very healing.

他们重新发现了仙人掌，并围绕它举办了，事实证明这非常有效。

But I also learned that the population of peyote cactus is crashing.

但我还了解到仙人掌数量正在崩溃。

Still, he never cut his long braids and advocated for the Native American Church and the use of peyote.

尽管如此，他从未剪掉长长辫子，并提倡美洲原住民教会和使用仙人掌。

So mescaline is a chemical produced by a couple kinds of cactus, most famously, peyote.

所以麦斯卡林是一由几仙人掌产生化学物质，最著名是仙人掌。

There's evidence of mescaline use,or peyote use, going back 6,000 years in Texas and in Mexico.

在得克萨斯州和墨西哥，有 6000 年前使用麦斯卡林或仙人掌证据。

And peyote is not legal to grow unless you're a Native American.

除非你是美洲原住民，否则植仙人掌是不合法。

And it is used in the form of peyote by Native Americans in their religious ceremonies and has been for a very long time.

美洲原住民在他们宗教以仙人掌形使用它，并且已经使用了很长时间。

He is a Native American man who ingested peyote as  part of a Native American church ceremony and was fired for taking illegal drugs at the time.

他是一名美国原住民，在美国原住民教堂上服用仙人掌，当时因服用非法药物而被解雇。

And I was so struck by the testimony of the Native Americans I interviewed as to what a role peyote had played in preserving their culture and in healing their trauma.

我对我采访美洲原住民证词感到非常震惊，因为仙人掌在保护他们文化和治愈他们创伤方面发挥了多么重要作用。

But I could see it from their point of view. Right. You decided not to take peyote but used both San Pedro and then also a synthesized mescaline.

但我可以从他们角度来看。正确。你决定不服用仙人掌，而是同时使用圣佩德罗和合成麦斯卡林。

But you do get to hear Al Smith in his  own words describing his story, his background, his—his struggle with alcoholism,   his decision to take peyote when he became part of the Native American church.

拉蒂夫：但你确实可以听到阿尔·史密斯用他自己话描述他故事、他背景、他与酗酒斗争，以及当他成为美洲原住民教会一员时他决定服用仙人掌。

Trauma, constant trauma -- extermination is really what was happening. Yes. So the peyote church begins for Native Americans in the 1880s, at this moment where they are on the verge of cultural annihilation.

创伤，持续创伤——真正发生是灭绝。是。因此，peyote 教堂始于 1880 年代美洲原住民，此时他们正处于文化灭绝边缘。

They're aware of the psychedelic renaissance, and they think some of these companies coming into the psychedelic space are going to eventually train their attention on peyote or mescaline and that this will be taken away from them.

他们意识到迷幻药复兴，他们认为进入迷幻药领域一些公司最终会将注意力集在仙人掌或仙人球毒碱上，而这将被从他们手夺走。