Mescaline
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Mescaline, also known in chemical terms as 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine, is a naturally occurring psychedelic drug and alkaloid of the phenethylamine and scaline families found in certain cacti like
A sample of pure mescaline.
Trichocereus pachanoi (San Pedro cactus) in Peru.
Dried peyote (Lophophora williamsii), containing ~5 to 6% mescaline by weight.
The stela of the cactus bearer, a piece of ancient Peruvian art depicting the San Pedro cactus.
Aldous Huxley
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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
Mescaline
…though exceptions exist for religious, scientific, or ornamental use, and the compound has influenced many notable cultural figures, for instance Aldous Huxley and Alexander Shulgin among others. Very few studies of mescaline in people have been conducted since the early 1970s. However, the drug is now being…
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Aldous, his brother Julian, and his father Leonard
Bloomsbury Group members (July 1915). Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell (age 42); Maria Nys (age 15), who would become Mrs Huxley; Lytton Strachey (age 35); Duncan Grant (age 30); and Vanessa Bell (age 36)
Aldous Huxley by Low (1933)
The grave of Aldous Huxley in the cemetery at the Watts Cemetery Chapel in Compton in Surrey in 2026