There, sitting on the floor between the gallery and the back entrance to the BAC auditorium, a television set flickers with Koester's 2007 video "My Frontier is an Endless Wall of Points" (after the
mescaline drawings of Henri Michaux).
In his article he says: "Ancient Peruvians were using the San Pedro cactus, which contains
mescaline, 9,000 years ago.
It employs "several different narrative modes: social and scientific history; natural history; memoir; science journalism; and case studies of volunteers and patients" to recount what has led to a new wave of interest in the benefits of LSD, psilocybin,
mescaline, and other psychedelics.
Pollan discusses the different types of psychedelic drugs and their history in detail, from plant-based forms such as psilocybin (mushrooms) and
mescaline (cacti) to LSD (synthetically produced).
The second chapter reviews the types of addictions, starting with alcohol and reaching up to benzodiazepine, barbiturates, cannabinoids, opiates, volatile substances, amphetamines / methamphetamines, cocaine and hallucinogens, including lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin,
mescaline, phencyclidine, ketamine, colinoblocks, antihistamines, anti-parkinsonianes, mimefedron, synthetic cannabinoids and the very current and controversial, synthetic-ethnobotanic drugs.
This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and
mescaline in cactuses.
[USA], Oct 24 (ANI): People using magic mushrooms, lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD, which is a powerful hallucinogenic drug and
mescaline (a substance derived from the peyote cactus) are less likely to engage in criminal offences and anti-social behaviour.
Among these illicit drugs are psychedelics like magic mushrooms, LSD, and
mescaline, which data suggests could be useful in reducing the antisocial and criminal tendencies among humans.
You get the idea, it's pretty far out and pretty great, if a little niche - perfect for those nights, perhaps, when you've absent-mindedly banged a load of
mescaline and amphetamines and just can't settle You know the ones.
Or that he'd been involved in testing psychedelics on prisoners to see if drugs like LSD,
mescaline and psilocybin could treat schizophrenia.
There are many varieties of psychedelic or psychoactive drugs that are popular since the early '60s such as LSD,
mescaline (found in peyote cactus plant), psilocybin and MDMA (or ecstasy).
But several years before that he began experimenting with drugs, making a hallucinogenic called DMT in the bathtub of his mother's flat and another called INVENTOR
mescaline. He even set up a perfume company as a front for his drug trade.
mescaline - the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons