Beloved by rockstars, writers, and psychonauts, the plant-based hallucinogen used to be everywhere. Then one day, it disappeared.
For Elliott spiritual reflection comes in the form of a hunk of sage-green cactus, carefully cut into pieces the size of a child’s thumb.
Elliott credits his ex-girlfriend for introducing him to San Pedro, brewed into a tea in the manner traditional to Indigenous cultures along the Andes, where it grows natively. She also gave him a cactus; he let it grow. It now provides him medicine and a passion, shared online with other psychonauts and cacti-curious minds.Elliott has done “nearly every psychedelic” one can think of, and proclaims that mescaline has a uniquely gentle touch among its peers. It also saved his life.
For most, mentions of mescaline likely inspire images of mysterious white powder, once popular with hedonists like Hunter S. Thompson. To some degree, the stereotypes are true: Mescaline had its heyday from the Great Depression to the 1950s, spurred on by beatniks and intellectuals like Aldous Huxley. Then, seemingly overnight, its popularity plummeted in America and Europe, to be replaced by newer, stronger, and cheaper psychedelics like LSD.
became the first person to take a peyote plant and isolate the psychoactive compound within. Heffter named the chemical “mescaline,” after an alternative name for peyote, “mescal.”The next milestone arrived two decades later, when Ernst Späth synthesized pure mescaline at the University of Vienna in 1919.“By 1920, Merck made it widely available as a white powder, sold in a pharmaceutical setting,” said Jay. “That really severed the connection with cacti and botany and Indigenous history.
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