Mescaline, a natural hallucinogen known since ancient times, was not only a favorite of artists and bohemians but also a mainstay of brain research throughout the first half of the 20th century, until ...

At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On Tuesday afternoon, fresh Christmas wreathes ...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) warred the public against proliferation of “Peyote” (Lophophora williamsii), a ...

An analysis of mummified heads and cadavers discovered on the Southern coast of Peru has pushed back the earliest known date of psychedelic cactus use and other psychoactive plants. Toxicology reports ...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday issued a warning for the public against abusing the “peyote” cactus ...

There’s something about mescaline. Prehistoric desert dwellers of the American Southwest and Mexico figured as much out when they figured out that eating peyote — the small, spineless cactus dotting ...

PARIS — Mind-blowing drugs are nothing new in French culture. Indeed, Simone de Beauvoir reported in The Prime of Life that Jean-Paul Sartre had a medically supervised mescaline injection in 1935, ...

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 ...

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday cautioned the public about the online sale of peyote, a spineless ...