Why are some Native Americans fighting efforts to decriminalize peyote?
(WorldNews Environment)

MEXICAN WATER, Ariz. - For Navajo spiritual leader Steven Benally, saving a Native American religion from extinction means preserving those diminishing lands where hallucinogenic peyote grows wild. `It´s a small but important step toward realizing a prophecy,` said the 61-year-old. Preservation also means battling activists in the California Bay Area and other cities who want to legalize consumption of the psychedelic cactus. `To these outsiders, we say, `Leave peyote alone. Please,´` Benally said. `Is that too much to ask?` Advertisement Native American rights attorney Steven Moore, left, and Steven Benally look at a peyote cactus at Benally´s home on the Navajo reservation in...