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• n  the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons

• Mescaline, I said, would not do.
• Timothy Leary: A Biography, the term psychedelic was coined by a British psychiatrist, Humphry Osmond, who had ingested mescaline in 1951.
• Mescaline, I said, would not do.

• peyote

News & Articles

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• Director Advises Kids To Experiment With ‘Spiritual’ Drugs Like Mescaline [Video]
  One director is all for kids experimenting with drugs. They just have to be “spiritual” drugs. Like mescaline. Director Sebastian Silva is making headlines this week due to his press tour (alongside Michael Cera) for his upcoming film Crystal Fairy. During one such stop with Uinterview, Silva strangely advocated drug experimentation, even among teens. “I... Read more » Director Advises Kids To ...
  July 12, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Indie drug ‘Fairy’ fails to deliver the goods
  Anything can happen when Michael Cera wanders around Chile without a script on a mission to get high on mescaline. Or, in the case of “Crystal Fairy,” nothing could happen, too. Cera, who is...
  July 12, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Bernie Carbo in USA Today
  Carbo tells Mark Schwarz: "I was addicted to the point where I couldn't play without the drugs. ...... Nobody (in a typical clubhouse) did as many drugs as I did. I was taking mescaline. I was taking cocaine. Crystal meth. Smoking dope and taking...
• Hunter S Thompson in The Age
  Here is what Thompson wrote in that book - just on the first page - about a trip with a lawyer friend from Los Angeles to Nevada: "The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline,...
• Iggy Pop in Gigwise
  Reflecting on when they first got together, Iggy said: "We didn't have any money for a band house. So I went to Detroit, I borrowed a shovel from The MC5 and I took some mescaline and I went to a barn." "I spent about ten hours till I came...