Button, button, who's got the button?

Commerce, Religion, Drug Regulation and Conservation
in the Current Peyote Trade of the Texas Borderlands.

The Problem of Diminishing Returns

The DEA-registered distributors of peyote are under pressure to harvest as much peyote as possible to satisfy their NAC customers.

The result is that the distributors return to harvest previously harvested populations too soon – before the newly regenerated buttons are mature.

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