Definition of mescaline
: a hallucinatory crystalline alkaloid C11H17NO3 that is the chief active principle in peyote buttons
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Her body struggles to process the methamphetamine and mescaline from the seven X tabs in her bloodstream.
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The Gucci collections seem concocted by an Italian painter whose evening vin santo got spiked with mescaline and Viagra.
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The test will come nearly 65 years after Aldous Huxley described his remarkable experiments with mescaline in Doors of Perception (a nod to poet William Blake).
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This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses.
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The Elevators embodied psychedelia - from their sound to their open use of LSD, mescaline and marijuana.
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Arthur King was one of thousands of research subjects who were given LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline as therapeutic tools in the 1950s and 1960s, often with government support and with promising results.
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He had been fascinated by psychedelic drugs since reading about them as a student at Brooklyn College and had experimented with mescaline and peyote.
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Prohibitions against LSD and brethren hallucinogens, like psilocybin and mescaline, were codified in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
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First Known Use of mescaline
1896
MESCALINE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of mescaline for English Language Learners
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: a drug that comes from a cactus and that makes people see things that are not real
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medical Definition of mescaline
: a hallucinatory crystalline alkaloid C11H17NO3 that is the chief active principle in peyote buttons
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