Here’s what travelers new to the psychedelic space can generally expect from a ceremony or retreat with each compound. Travelers taking on these experiences should do their research and do so ...

While regular cocaine is a naturally occurring alkaloid, pink cocaine is a "designer drug" containing phenylethylamine derivatives which brings about the hallucinogenic effect. One of Liam's ...

Mescaline, a natural hallucinogen known since ancient times, was not only a favorite of artists and bohemians but also a mainstay of brain research throughout the first half of the 20th century ...

But Psychiatrist Smythies is not interested merely in Technicolored 3-dementia. Mescaline, he argues, produces the closest known facsimile of the symptoms of schizophrenia.

Huxley’s long essays “The Doors of Perception” and “Heaven and Hell,” published together in 1954, provide a vivid account of how the psychedelic drug mescaline (an alkaloid derived from ...

More information: Lawrence Kramer et al, Identification of Tropane Alkaloid Chemotypes and Genotypes in Hyoscyamus niger L., Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science (2023).

Researchers have known how to synthesize mescaline for more than a century: In 1918, Viennese chemist Ernst Späth pioneered the synthesis of mescaline from common chemical building blocks, an ...

Discovery of Alkaloids in Cannabis Cannabis is a very complicated plant and “more than 500 compounds have been reported from C. sativa, of which 125 cannabinoids have been isolated and/or ...

Mescaline can be consumed as a powder, tablet, capsule or liquid, with the option to chew peyote fresh or dried, the Alcohol and Drug Foundation says. The decriminalization of mescaline and other ...

Native to South America, the San Pedro cacti is illegally poached for its mescaline, as is the peyote cacti, or Lophophora williamsii – a plant endemic to the southern U.S. and northern México ...