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 ...

This January 15, 1896 story, “Joy for the Topers” (old-timer slang for drunks), mentions cannabis in passing, but the majority of the piece is on the wonders and joys of eating peyote and mescaline — ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

A 49-year-old man was arrested on Feb. 2 on suspicion of running a "large-scale psychedelics business" out of his Camp Verde home, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said on Tuesday. Adam Dearmon was ...

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