To now start poaching their peyote is just criminal.

现在开始偷猎他们的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，并围绕它举办了仪式，事实证明这种仪式非常有效。

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

但我还了解到仙人掌的数量正在崩溃。

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

尽管如此，他从未剪掉长长的辫子，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.

所以麦斯卡林是一种由几种仙人掌产生的化学物质，最著名的是仙人掌。

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的证据。

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

除非你是美洲原住民，否则种植仙人掌是不合法的。

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

美洲原住民在他们的宗教仪式中以仙人掌的形式使用它，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，在美国原住民教堂仪式上服用仙人掌，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.

我对我采访的美洲原住民的证词感到非常震惊，因为仙人掌在保护他们的文化和治愈他们的创伤方面发挥了多么重要的作用。