I first learned about it while broadcasting at KVMR-FM, a hippie-staffed talk and music station that catered to alternative lifestyle folks in the northern Sierra Nevada. One guy in the office ...

A man suffering from "psychotic episodes" after self-medicating on San Pedro cactus and cannabis has been jailed for eight months after viciously assaulting his partner with a copper pot. The ...

At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On Tuesday afternoon, fresh Christmas wreathes ...

Charlie Stride, 73, has celebrated his San Pedro cactus flowering for the first time since he bought it in Thailand 25 years ago.

The San Pedro cactus evolved thirty or forty million years ago in the deserts of South America. Today its native habitat is the barren cliffs of the high Andes, two thousand metres above sea level. In ...

Kihikihi resident John Brown admires the flowers on his San Pedro cactus on Tuesday when it flowered for the first time. On the right is a close-up of a second flowering cactus. Photo / Dean Taylor ...

Don Alejandro the shaman shakes a rattle stick, provoking a sensuous cascade of clicking sounds. He chants softly in the Peruvian night, invoking spirits to assist in healing and enlivening our small ...