Mescaline
COMMON & BRAND NAMES
Mescalito
EFFECTS CLASSIFICATION
Psychedelic Phenethylamine
CHEMICAL NAME
3,4,5-trimethoxy-ß-phenethylamine
DESCRIPTION
Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic with a long history of human use. It is best known as the primary active chemical in the peyote cactus.
GENERAL INFORMATION #
MYTHS & URBAN LEGENDS #
ASK EROWID ANSWERS #
RESEARCH & JOURNAL ARTICLES #
Mescaline use for 5700 years - 2002
EXPERIENCES #
One Day Vacation, by Psychic Traveler
Overall Effect Is Very Pleasant, by Alexander Shulgin
First Encounter With Mescalito, by iDreamer
Double Hoot All-Stars, by yardbird
Pharmacological Release, by Illitero
BOOKS #
The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell, by A. Huxley
Psychedelics Encyclopedia, by P. Stafford
Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations, by H. Kluver
Miserable Miracle, by H. Michaux
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Mescaline, Psilocybin, and Creative Artists - by Stanley Krippner, 1969
Mescaline, LSD, Psilocybin and Personality Change - by Sanford M. Unger, 1963
PROHIBITION SITES #
The use of the Herb or Root called Peyote. . . is a superstitious action
and reproved as opposed to the purity and sincerity of our Holy Catholic Faith,
being so that this said herb, nor any other cannot possess the virtue and natural
efficacy attributed to it for said effects, nor to cause the images, phantasms and
representations on which are founded said divinations, and that in these one sees
notoriously the suggestion and assistance of the devil, author of this abuse.
--- Inquisitors against heresy, depravity and apostasy
---June 19 1620, Mexico City