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Today, Native Americans must give prayers of thanks first to clumps of peyote deliberately planted by peyoteros near where they sell their cut and dried peyote buttons for about 35 cents each.

Today, the 53-year-old is a self-styled Kentucky shaman presiding over psychedelic journeys in his Native American church in the former laundromat of a sagging Taylor County trailer park.

But in certain states, including Kentucky, ayahuasca is allowed to be used as a sacrament by registered Native American churches. The drug is usually consumed as a drink that looks like tea.

What first attracted him to these traditional healers, he says, was their focus on preventing, rather than treating, illness – a priority at the time far less visible in his native America.