"If a person performs his duties as a keeper of the living medicine with the same care and reverence that he would bring to a peyote meeting – the same care and reverence with which he might tend the fire – then the medicine will reflect that care and that reverence to those who use it as the sacrament."
Spiritual Leader Rio Grande Native American Church that is intended for sacramental use is a logical and inescapable suggestion.  With the cooperative effort of the regulators at the DEA — whose legal responsibility would be to promulgate a regulatory framework that would allow the NAC to supply its own peyote in a mode which would prevent diversion — such production of the sacrament for the NAC could be undertaken by any tribe that wanted to control their own supply of peyote. If this practice were generally adopted by NAC chapters in the U.S., that would relieve the harvesting pressure on the wild populations of peyote in South Texas and allow them to recover. Despite the well established history of successful greenhouse production of peyote for ornamental purposes in Europe and elsewhere, there is a great need for studies to determine optimal horticultural practices to maximize production of peyote biomass in a controlled greenhouse environment.
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