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mescaline

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mescaline , or 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine , is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine class, known for its hallucinogenic effects comparable to those of LSD and psilocybin . It occurs naturally in the peyote cactus ( Lophophora ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons [syn: peyote ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine class found naturally in several species of cactus, including peyote (taxlink Lophophora williamsii species noshow=1), the (vern: San Pedro cactus) (taxlink Echinopsis pachanoi species noshow=1), and the (vern: ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crystalline alkaloid, 1896, from German mezcalin (1896), so called because it originally was found in the buttons that grow atop the mescal cacti (see mescal ). With chemical suffix -ine (2).

Usage examples of mescaline.

I was on mescaline and I whacked off into a liverwurst sandwich, just because I read about it in a book.

Mescaline, harmaline, LSD6, bufotenine, muscarine successful in many cases.

LSD and mescaline, psychodrama, group dynamics, sensory-awareness techniques, Quakerism, Gurdjieff exercises, relaxation therapies,the Alexander method, autogenic training, and self-hypnosis.

Overall searing-regret honors probably go to Jennifer Belbin, who has four uncoverable black teardrops descending from the corner of one eye, from one night of mescaline and adrenalized grief, so that from more than two meters away she always looks like she has flies on her, Randy Lenz points out.

I would like to ask you if there could be benign associations-Could you for example associate mescaline with apomorphine on a molecular level?

THC, morning-glory seeds, psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, peyote, methedrine, and Romilar, is that right?

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.

LSD and mescaline, psychodrama, group dynamics, sensory-awareness techniques, Quakerism, Gurdjieff exercises, relaxation therapies,the Alexander method, autogenic training, and self-hypnosis.

The inside of his head seemed dark and confused, the edges of his mind ragged and woolly and increasingly losing contact with reality, for all his conscious, desperate attempts to cling on to what shreds of reason the Actedron and Mescaline had left him.

Two o'clock and the commandant would be waiting for them: and so, too, would the syringes and the coffee, the Mescaline and the Actedron, waiting to drive them over the edge of madness.

The active ingredient is mescaline, which is supposed to induce religious visions.

At that time of my life, at age twenty-eight, I had experienced the effects of alcohol, pot, hash, opium, LSD, STP, MDA, DMT, mescaline (organic and synthetic), psilocybin (ditto), peyote, amanita muscaria, a few licks of crystal meth, and medically administered morphine.

I do not believe that there is a single known psychoactive drug of which some of my friends is not a user/proponent/proselyte, and in the ensuing month I tried at least 3 dosage levels of (in order) marijuana, alcohol, hashish, LSD, STP, PCP, synthetic THC, benzedrine, methedrine, ibogaine, amyl nitrate, Valium, Lib-rium, mescaline (real and synthetic), and psilocybin (likewise), amanita muscaria, peyote, yohimbe bark, ginseng root, nitrous oxide, and 3 others which even the source could not name -- in addition, of course, to my usual caffeine and nicotine.

No, the only thing that really disturbed him in the aftermath of the mescaline was the shattered lens of the Zenith color TV.

If there is no movement in the next four to six weeks, we'll go on with the standard electroshock therapy, but for now I would like to run the standard drug schedule again, plus a few not so standardI am thinking of both synthetic mescaline and psyilocybin, if you concur.