Word: chewers
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Easy Prey. The Navajos, already wretched in their poverty and disease (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947), were easy prey for peyote peddlers. The stuff offered them escape from their troubles. After a twinge of nausea (felt only by beginners), the peyote-chewer gets an otherworldly sensation of being in two parts. Then come visions and hallucinations, always involving bright colors and lights-"dreams in Technicolor." The medical aftereffects, still in dispute, apparently include impairment of the heart and kidneys...