When people hear “psychedelic,” they might think of raves, trips, hallucinations, electronic dance parties or the 1960s. The uses Western culture has for these substances are more popularly thought of ...

Peyote is a small, button shaped cactus native to Mexico and southern parts of the United States. Potent compounds in peyote, such as mescaline, cause it to have a hallucinogenic effect in humans.

Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. By Mike Jay.Yale University Press; 304 pages; $26 and £18.99. MESCALINE IS THE drug that launched the modern fascination with hallucinogens. It is ...

With the publication of Aldous Huxley’s mescaline-induced musings in “The Doors of Perception” in 1954, the spiritual and mystical groundwork for the psychedelic revolution of the following decade was ...

Prologue : One bright May morning : 3 May 1953 : Hollywood Hills -- Cactus mysteries : 2000 BCE-present : Andean South America -- The Devil's root : 1519-present : Mexico -- Making medicine : 1880-93 ...

On a placid June morning two years ago, I embarked on a creative and spiritual voyage into the abyss that began by swallowing a potent cup of liquid LSD. The initial effects were almost identical to ...

BASEL, Switzerland, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MindMed (Nasdaq: MNMD) (NEO: MMED) (DE: MMQ), a leading clinical stage psychedelic medicine company, announced today the approval by the local Swiss ...

Dried peyote “buttons” found alongside rock art in the Shumla Caves in Texas have been carbon dated to 4000BCE, rolled cactus skins (believed to be San Pedro) have been found at the sprawling ancient ...

A history of the drug mescaline. "The culmination of a lifetime's wanderings in the very farthest outposts of scientific and medical history," said the Guardian.

“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition,” Edmund Burke wrote, “men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, ...