Apart from that, although he boasted of having taken mescaline and cocaine in his youth, his persistent drug of choice was mint candy.

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Both Aldous Huxley (experimenting with mescaline) and Robert Graves (mushrooms) quoted Wordsworth’s poetry to convey the tenor of their experiences.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/psychonauts-drugs-and-the-making-of-the-modern-mind-mike-jay-book-review

LSD was also far more potent, making it more economical and practical than mescaline for both research and recreational use.

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Others go a little further: Last spring, after having pored over existing recipes on the internet, Elliott devised his own “” (slang for “technique”) in the hunt for clean mescaline crystals.

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“The longer a cactus has been stored, the stronger and the higher its content in mescaline-derived alkaloids will be,” with an individual cactus’ mescaline content also varying based on its environmental temperature, levels of rainfall and more.

Source: https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2023/12/04/plant-psychedelic-colorado-san-pedro-cactus-hallucinogens-mescaline/

Ultimately, researchers were disappointed to discover that, despite superficial similarities, a mescaline trip had very little in common with chronic conditions like schizophrenia or psychosis.

Source: https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/02/mescaline-peyote-san-pedro-cactus-psychedelic-drug.html?via=rss