How to Use mescaline in a Sentence

mescaline

noun
  • Her body struggles to process the methamphetamine and mescaline from the seven X tabs in her bloodstream.
    Miles Marshall Lewis, The Root, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Without that time, the mescaline content will be low, the report explained.
    Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2022
  • To them, adrenochrome became a psychotropic, akin to mescaline.
    Brian Friedberg, Wired, 31 July 2020
  • This is how morphine is made in the opium poppy, and mescaline in cactuses.
    Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • There was one night, again at Spahn’s, where everybody took mega doses of acid and probably some mescaline or something else mixed in with it.
    Win McCormack, The New Republic, 29 July 2019
  • In the front of the building, next to the sidewalk on busy Telegraph Avenue, grew San Pedro cacti, which contain the hallucinogen mescaline.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • The psychedelic effects of mescaline are compared to LSD.
    Kelly Santana Banks, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Along with hallucinogens like mescaline and psilocybin (that is, magic mushrooms), LSD was often blamed for bad trips that sent people to the psych ward.
    Michael Pollan, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • The study found no link between the use of LSD, psilocybin or mescaline and suicidal behavior or mental health problems.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The Elevators embodied psychedelia - from their sound to their open use of LSD, mescaline and marijuana.
    John Petkovic, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • It can be brewed in anything from a cauldron to a slow cooker, although the ingredients containing DMT can be hard to come by as the substance, like mescaline, is still on Schedule 1.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The food writer studies three psychoactive plants — opium, caffeine and mescaline.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Carlos Santana famously played Woodstock while tripping out of his mind on mescaline.
    Corbin Reiff, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Witt writes like a dream on just about anything (Björk, mescaline, orgasmic meditation).
    Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Gucci collections seem concocted by an Italian painter whose evening vin santo got spiked with mescaline and Viagra.
    Will Welch, GQ, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Day’s theory is that Manson may have wanted money from Leno, a grocery-store-chain owner who liked to gamble, to pay off the Straight Satans, who were still angry about getting their money back for the bad mescaline.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 26 July 2019
  • The book has little to say, however, about the major choices for governments and individuals that might flow from a more informed view of opium, caffeine, and mescaline.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
  • How is Journey Colab learning from these traditional users of mescaline?
    Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Weissberg and his companion, their perceptions enhanced by a mescaline diet, didn’t stick around for Sunday’s program.
    Charlie Brennan, The Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Studies have shown that tolerance to LSD also translates to tolerance for psilocybin and mescaline.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The study found no link between the use of LSD, psilocybin or mescaline (the psychoactive compounds in magic mushroom) and suicidal behavior or mental health problems.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Feb. 2020
  • But Socha and her colleagues found no sign of mescaline (another common hallucinogenic), DMT, or cocaethylene.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022
  • Could this class of drugs, which includes LSD, mescaline and many lesser-known or yet to be discovered chemicals, revive drug development for psychiatry?
    Danielle Schlosser, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The bill also legalizes personal use, cultivating, and sharing of the two psychedelic compounds along with three others — DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline — for adults over 21.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 16 Nov. 2022
  • And then a couple of sort of heavier hitters are now being tested in primarily healthy control populations, including drugs like mescaline and ayahuasca.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Multiple psychedelics, including psilocybin, ayahuasca, LSD and mescaline, have been shown in studies to increase emotional empathy, at least in part because psychedelics are proven to boost open-minded thinking.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • He had been fascinated by psychedelic drugs since reading about them as a student at Brooklyn College and had experimented with mescaline and peyote.
    William Grimes, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Other naturally occurring psychedelics that would be allowed under the bill include ibogaine, a psychoactive alkaloid found in the iboga shrub, and mescaline found in cacti other than peyote.
    Hannah Wileystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • These ceremonies involved a small, spineless cactus called peyote, which contained a range of phenethylamine alkaloids—most notably mescaline, a high-power hallucinogen.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 26 July 2021
  • But in this blend of memoir and history Pollan focuses on the medicinal, specifically a trinity of psychoactive drugs: LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin.
    Ellen Ruppel Shell, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2018

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