America in the 18th and 19th centuries was a land of thousands of licensed stills. (And uncounted, shall we say, informal operations.) "New York alone had 1, 200 legal distilleries before Prohibition, " claims Ralph Erenzo, a cofounder (in 2003) of Tuthilltown Spirits, the state's first and so far only whiskey producer since Repeal.
If Mexico were to liberalise its peyote laws, or if the Native American Church were to buy land and harvest its own peyote, America's seven licensed peyoteros could suffer from falling prices.