Note 43 — APPENDIX 6: PHYSIOLOGY OF PEYOTE

Letter to Schultes, Feb. 21, 1936. My own experience leads me fully to endorse Hrdlička’s careful statement. Elsewhere in the text are cited numerous cases of natives who, in good faith I believe, gave up the use of peyote entirely upon the rising of special or acute anxieties. My informants, on the other hand, quite as frankly admitted that there were some individuals who showed signs of addiction, in the sense that they consumed the plant often and abundantly, but these are not clear uncomplicated instances of drug-addiction; I trust such native candor implicitly. Besides, peyote is not wholly pleasant (“You must suffer to peyote”).