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Dr. John Rayleigh Briggs and the Story of Peyote in Texas

Dr. John Rayleigh Briggs was the first man to eat peyote and report on its effects. Briggs, a physician who was then located in Fort Worth, Texas, ate the buttons in 1886 as an experiment, documenting his experience in his meticulous notes. The following year, in 1887, he publishes his account in medical journals, catching the eye of one of the co-owners of Parke, Davis, and Company - the oldest pharmaceutical company in America. Dr. Briggs becomes Parke Davis' exclusive supplier of peyote buttons, and it's the dried buttons procured by Briggs which are first analyzed by the famed German pharmacologist Louis Lewin, leading to the cactus receiving its fist scientific classification and starting the race to uncover peyote's active ingredient. Lewin would lose in this effort to Arthur Heffter, of course, who discovered mescaline, before conducting a self-experiment on himself with the synthetic mescaline HCl he had just created. Also covered are the topics of ancient use of peyote in Texas, other psychoactive cacti of the San Pedro and related species used further south (plus the enigmatic Mexican Cardon, Pachycereus pringlei, the psychedelic cactus species found by Sasha Shulgin). I then briefly cover topics including Texan Rangers using peyote during the civil war, as well as the history of Quanah Parker the Native American Church, bringing us to modern day. Peyote was the first psychedelic discovered, and it is a strange species of cactus which only grows in a very small area around South Texas and Northern Mexico--with no similar cacti occurring anywhere else on Earth. I want to try to share some of the plant's fascinating story in Texas and pay tribute to Dr. John Briggs, as without him, the scientific investigations into peyote would have never began when it did.