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mescaline
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mes·ca·line
/ ˈmeskəlin; -ˌlēn/
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a hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound, (CH3O)3C6H2CH2CH2NH2, present in mescal buttons from the peyote cactus.
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Trip to bountiful. (Books).(Miserable Miracle: Mescaline)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...MICHAUX Henri Michaux, Miserable Miracle: Mescaline, trans. Louise Varese and Anna Moschovakis...books concerning his experiences with mescaline and other, mostly psychedelic, drugs...written during the experiments with mescaline and reproduced with the same fidelity...
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Author describes experience with the divine through mescaline.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Leary. There he ingested two capsules of mescaline, the mind-altering drug derived from...laws passed in 1965 and 1970 identified mescaline, psilocybin, peyote, LSD and other...argues that entheogens such as peyote and mescaline may be the only portal to other, perhaps...
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 "The Nation (Thailand)")
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TAKE FIVE: Gone With The Wind on mescaline, NATION
Newspaper article from: The Nation (Thailand); 9/11/1998; ; 587 words
; ...Directed by: Clint Eastwood. Our Take: To borrow a line from one of the characters, this is ''like Gone With the Wind on mescaline''.Partly because it seems so interminable. Based on the book of the same name by John Berendt, Midnight tells the story...
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HOOSICK TEACHER FACES DRUG COUNT ALLEGEDLY GAVE TEEN MESCALINE.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/13/1988; 696 words
; ...significant drug problem. State Police Senior Investigator George Lajeunesse said Durfee offered doses of the mind-altering drug mescaline to four youths who went to his campus apartment for dinner on March 16, but only one of them - identified only as a 17...
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Ecstasy analogues found in cacti.(Short Communication)
Magazine article from: Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Mescaline is the major psychoactive alkaloid of two...of Trichocereus pachanoi consist mainly of mescaline and related phenethylamines, Lophophora williamsii contains a mixture of mescaline and tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids, such...
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Peyote lab, pot farm busted
Newspaper article from: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin; 8/28/2008; ; 655 words
; ...discovery of something very rare - a mescaline lab in San Bernardino County. The...deputies discovered it wasn't meth but mescaline they were dealing with. They suspect the jug contained liquid mescaline. They also found about 2 ounces of...
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Parties pumping on cactus drug
Newspaper article from: New Truth & TV Extra; 10/11/2002; 356 words
; MESCALINE parties are popping up around the country...Truth druggies were serving homemade mescaline as a free treat for their guests. He...of which is then boiled down to make mescaline. Other people had started growing their...
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Humphry F. Osmond, 86; Came Up With Term 'Psychedelic'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of a schizophrenic. He administered mescaline and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD...producing its own toxic compound similar to mescaline; that, they said, caused hallucinations...mystical and revelatory, wrote about his mescaline use in the book "The Doors of Perception...
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Hallucinogenic drug made Jean-Paul Sartre 'fall in love' with lobsters.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 11/22/2009; 611 words
; ...him and the French philosopher about mescaline, a powerful hallucinogenic drug. "Yeah, after I took mescaline I started seeing crabs around me all...popularized existentialism, experimented with mescaline to an extent that he almost became a...
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Successful treatment of schizophrenia requires optimal daily doses of vitamin [B.sub.3].(Guest Editorial)
Magazine article from: Alternative Medicine Review; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...researching the effects of substances such as mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD...schizophrenia. Osmond and Smythies noted that mescaline had a similar chemical structure to that...similar neurochemical properties to that of mescaline or LSD. They eventually deduced that...
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mescaline
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
mescaline Psychedelic drug obtained from the dried tops of the peyote cactus, Lophophora williamsii. In North America, mescaline is used in some Native American religious rites.
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Sensation and Perception and Effects of Drugs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
...Naturally occurring drugs, such as Mescaline from the Peyote cactus, increase awareness...Because of these sensory changes, mescaline and psilocybin have been used since pre...is more than 50 times as potent as mescaline. MDMA produces "out-of-body" sensations...
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Hallucinogens
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...major ” hallucinogens are LSD, mescaline, psilocybin (found in “ magic...isolation (1896) and synthesis (1919) of mescaline, the primary hallucinogenic component of peyote. Mescaline was thus the first hallucinogen to become...
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Hallucinogens and related disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...hallucinogens are lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin, and MDMA (ecstasy). Phencyclidine...windowpane, cid, doses, trips, and boomers. Mescaline Mescaline is a naturally occurring plant hallucinogen. Its...
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Illicit Drugs
Book article from: World of Forensic Science
...and hashish oil) hallucinogens (LSD, mescaline, peyote, MDMA) dissociative anesthetics...Hallucinogens such as LSD, MDMA, mescaline, psilocybin, psilocin, and muscimol...suggestive of some forms of brain damage. Mescaline is extracted from the peyote cactus...
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