I don't want to draw this thread too far off topic, but this is actually really interesting to consider historically.
The only tribes we have evidence for a true peyote lineage going back thousands of years are the Huichol and the Tarahumara, both indigenous to Mexico.
Peyote wasn't introduced to the North American tribes till the mid 1800's via Quanah Parker who was healed by a Huichol using peyote, ultimately giving rise to the Native American Church and it's associated peyote religion. Use of peyote wasn't widely adopted by the Navajo till the 1930's.
So given the history, it's rather odd that Mexican-Americans, even those of full Tarahumara or Huichol blood, are not exempt from peyote laws, since they are not federally recognized tribes. Yet tribes that have only been using peyote for 150 years at best do enjoy the exemption.
As an aside, the NAC was incorporated largely thanks to the assistance and testimony of a white man and good friend of Quanah Parker's named James Mooney, who's grandson is the founder of ONAC with all it's associated controversy, illegitimacy, and exact same historical lineage.
I would suggest this particular incident of institutionalized racism is no longer relevant (if it ever was) and measures be taken to protect and preserve the remaining wild populations of this truly special plant as a HUMAN heritage.
Which means, since we are all related, all of us African foreigners eat cultivated peyote. :twisted:
/end rant