Mushroom paintings 9,000 years old were found in Algeria. The magic mushroom was first used to kill flies. Peyote buttons are the tops of small narcotic cactus Lophophora Williamsii, growing around the Rio Grande. Mexicans confusingly refer to other plants as peyote. 8,000 BC Mexican Indians gathered in caves to use peyote. For over 3000 years Indians have used naturally occurring hallucinogens such as the "sacred mushroom" of the peyote cactus in Mexico and Southwestern United States. Peyote was dried and eaten by Southwest Indians at religious services for sense of well-being and for a trance and hallucinations (visions) Since 1885 the peyote cult spread among African-Americans. Government no longer upholds peyote as "bona fide religious rites."Peyote's mescaline can be made in labs. In 1919 mescaline was isolated, resembling epinephrine, the adrenal hormone. Users slice off and eat peyote crowns fresh or dried. Peyote buttons last years, swallowed whole or drunk in tea. Peyote contains psyilocybin. Peyote has 8 alkaloids. The main one, mescaline, produces psychologic disorientation with brilliant, everchanging colors. Mescaline hallucinations produce audio visual effects, double personality, derealization (loss of sense of reality of environment) and depersonlization (shattered personality) Synthetic peyote lowers blood pressure, depresses the central nervous system, kills by respiratory failure.