Isn T. pachanoi weaker than peyote?
That depends on “which pachanoi” you are talking about. Reports published in scholarly journals have shown pachanoi to sometimes be twice as strong as peyote. In addition, T. pachanoi grows a few orders of magnitude faster than peyote; pachanoi can double in mass every year, while peyote takes about a decade to grow to flowering size. T. pachanoi branches can grow to 18′ by 4″ dia, while natural peyote tops out at about 2″ high by 4″ dia. T. pachanoi is certainly a formidable mescaline producer and has three millenia of human usage. “Weak” is really an unfair word to apply to either plant.
