Abstract Mescaline was administered orally at doses of 16 and 32 mg/kg on the seventh through tenth days of gestation to pregnant cream‐strain hamsters. This treatment resulted in a dose‐dependent effect on reproductive success and skeletal ossification. The effect of mescaline on reproductive success included an increased number of resorptions resulting in a decreased litter size. The 32 mg/kg...
Abstract Although there are reports of five children with limbs defects among 161 children from parents who took LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) this review of the literature indicates that LSD does not cause chromosome breakage and that there is no strong evidence of teratogenicity in animals.