Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine)—the magical alkaloid found in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) and similar cacti—could be the next vital ingredient in psychedelic drug formulations ...

Peyote is a small, button shaped cactus native to Mexico and southern parts of the United States. Potent compounds in peyote, such as mescaline, cause it to have a hallucinogenic effect in humans.

Over the past two decades, researchers have published study after study evaluating the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD. The research is so promising that despite being ...

For Alexander Shulgin, the twentieth-century biochemist often called the godfather of psychedelics, it all began with mescaline. “The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child,” he ...

When people hear “psychedelic,” they might think of raves, trips, hallucinations, electronic dance parties or the 1960s. The uses Western culture has for these substances are more popularly thought of ...

BASEL, Switzerland, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MindMed (Nasdaq: MNMD) (NEO: MMED) (DE: MMQ), a leading clinical stage psychedelic medicine company, announced today the approval by the local Swiss ...

Like many a researcher before him (including the late great Havelock Ellis), British Psychiatrist John Smythies was fascinated by the extraordinary visions he had after taking mescaline, an alkaloid ...

Pushed to the periphery of public awareness during Covid-19 pandemic, the disease of substance addiction continues to ravage humanity. Substance abuse deaths are often “deaths of despair,” as ...

TRY to think of an area where plants haven’t benefited us and you will probably come up short. But as well as providing us with food, medicine and textiles, they are a source of psychoactive drugs.

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