Note 15 — APPENDIX 4: “PLANT WORSHIP” IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES

We ignore for our purposes the South American area of the use of datura, though it is surely connected with the Mexican culturally and historically, as well as the South American use of coca, tobacco, cohoba snuff (Piptadenia peregrina), guarana (Paullinia cupana or P. sorbilis), chocolatl (Theobroma cacao), aya-huasca (Banisteria caapi) and yajé (Haemadictyon Amazonicum Spruce). Many of the uses of these plants in war, prophesying, divination, ordeals, and doctoring are strikingly similar to the Mexican uses of marihuana, datura, teo-nanacatl and peyote.