Is San Pedro Cactus Legal? Every State (2026)

How the law reaches San Pedro

San Pedro and Peruvian torch cacti (Trichocereus or Echinopsis species) contain mescaline. Peyote is a different cactus, Lophophora williamsii. Schedules name mescaline and peyote; the line for each state below is what the record says about other mescaline cacti.

San Pedro cactus by state

• Alabama Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached through the mescaline entry and the “any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of” language.
• Alaska Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached through the mescaline entry and the mixture language.
• Arizona Mescaline: Illegal
  Mescaline is separately a dangerous drug (13-3401(6)(a)(xxi)), which reaches San Pedro and other mescaline cacti through the mixture language; those cacti are not named.
• Arkansas Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached through the mescaline entry and the mixture language.
• California Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through the mescaline entry and the subdivision (d) lead-in covering any material that contains any quantity of mescaline.
• Colorado Mescaline: Illegal
  The Natural Medicine Health Act includes mescaline but expressly excludes peyote (C.R.S. 18-18-434(12)(b)(III); 12-170-104(12)(d)), so peyote has no lawful personal-use or licensed channel, while mescaline from other cacti such as San Pedro falls within adult personal use under 18-18-434(5).
• Connecticut Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached through the mescaline entry.
• Delaware Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached through the mescaline entry and that lead-in.
• District of Columbia Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named; they fall within the listing only through the mescaline entry and the any-material-containing lead-in.
• Florida Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named and are reached only through the mescaline entry and the lead-in.
• Georgia Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named and are reached only through the mescaline entry and the lead-in.
• Hawaii Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named and are reached only through the mescaline entry and the lead-in.
• Idaho Mescaline: Illegal
  Mescaline-bearing cacti such as San Pedro (Trichocereus / Echinopsis) are not named; they are reached only through the mescaline entry and that lead-in.
• Illinois Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named; they are reached only through the mescaline entry and the (d) lead-in covering any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of a listed hallucinogen.
• Indiana Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline-bearing cacti are not named; they are reached only through the mescaline entry and the (d) lead-in covering any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of a listed hallucinogen.
• Iowa Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus or Echinopsis cacti are not named; they are reached only through the mescaline entry and the subsection 4 lead-in covering any material containing any quantity of a listed hallucinogen.
• Kansas Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus or Echinopsis cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content under the (d) lead-in.
• Kentucky Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus or Echinopsis cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content under the federal (d) lead-in.
• Louisiana Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus or Echinopsis cacti are not named in the schedule or in the 989.1 plant list and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Maine Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; the “including but not limited to peyote” wording reaches other mescaline sources only by interpretation.
• Maryland Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content under the federal mixture language.
• Massachusetts Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content under the mixture lead-in.
• Michigan Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Minnesota Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Mississippi Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Missouri Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content under the paragraph lead-in.
• Montana Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Nebraska Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Nevada Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• New Hampshire Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline and the any-material-containing lead-in.
• New Jersey Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline and the material-containing lead-in.
• New Mexico Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline and the material-containing lead-in.
• New York Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline and the material-containing lead-in.
• North Carolina Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content under the mixture language.
• North Dakota Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content.
• Ohio Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content.
• Oklahoma Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are reached the same way.
• Oregon Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are reached only through mescaline content.
• Pennsylvania Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content under the paragraph lead-in.
• Rhode Island Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content.
• South Carolina Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content.
• South Dakota Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content under the lead-in.
• Tennessee Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Texas Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content (481.002(5) counts the aggregate weight of any mixture containing a controlled substance).
• Utah Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached through mescaline content under the mixture lead-in.
• Vermont Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached only through mescaline content.
• Virginia Mescaline: Illegal
  San Pedro and other Trichocereus cacti are not named and are reached through mescaline content under the mixture lead-in.
• Washington Mescaline: Illegal
  Mescaline-bearing cacti such as San Pedro are not named; they are reached only through mescaline content.
• West Virginia Mescaline: Illegal
  So mescaline-bearing cacti other than peyote (San Pedro and similar) are not named and are reached only if a court treats cactus material as mescaline.
• Wisconsin Mescaline: Illegal
  The same plant language reaches other mescaline-bearing cacti such as San Pedro through their mescaline content.
• Wyoming Mescaline: Illegal
  Wyo. Stat. 35-7-1014(d) lists mescaline (xiv) and peyote (xvi), defined as all parts of Lophophora williamsii, its seeds, extracts and every preparation of them, under a lead-in reaching any material containing a listed hallucinogen; San Pedro and other mescaline cacti are reached through mescaline content. 35-7-1040 makes planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying or processing peyote a misdemeanor except as provided by law. 35-7-1044 provides that the Act does not prohibit delivery, possession or use of peyote in natural form for bona fide religious sacramental purposes by members of the Native American Church of Wyoming.

Federal

Federally scheduled or prohibited. Schedule I federally (peyote and mescaline); Native American Church exemption Federal detail

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