Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing
2019
A. Dasgupta
20 citations
Abstract Although less common than abuse of marijuana and cocaine, abuse of magic mushroom, peyote cactus, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), khat, and volatiles is observed in the United States. Eating wild mushroom is dangerous because misidentification of toxic mushroom as magic mushroom may be fatal. Magic mushroom contains psilocybin and psilocin but major psychedelic action of magic...
Current Molecular Pharmacology
October 15, 2018
Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira, Carolina Lança Pereira, Diana Dias Da Silva
101 citations
Background:Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine), mainly found in the Peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), is one of the oldest known hallucinogenic agents that influence human and animal behavior, but its psychoactive mechanisms remain poorly understood.Objective:This article aims to fully review pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of mescaline, focusing on the in vivo and in vitro...
University of Toronto quarterly
August 1, 2018
Alexander S. Dawson
Historians find all sorts of interesting things in the archives, including reams of gossipy correspondence, doodled to-do lists, and the occasional gem. This seems to be what Erika Dyck, a historian at the University of Saskatchewan, decided she had encountered when she came across Fannie Kahan’s unpublished manuscript in the papers of Abram Hoffer. Written more than a half-century ago as an...
ACS Chemical Neuroscience
May 30, 2018
Bruce K. Cassels, Patricio Sáez-briones
84 citations
Archeological studies in the United States, Mexico, and Peru suggest that mescaline, as a cactus constituent, has been used for more than 6000 years. Although it is a widespread cactus alkaloid, it is present in high concentrations in few species, notably the North American peyote ( Lophophora williamsii) and the South American wachuma ( Trichocereus pachanoi, T. peruvianus, and T. bridgesii)....
Great plains quarterly
2018
Stacy B. Schaefer, Professor Emerita
Reviewed by: A Culture's Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada by Fannie Kahan Stacy B. Schaefer and Professor Emerita A Culture's Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada. By Fannie Kahan. Edited and with an introduction by Erika Dyck. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016. vi + 126 pp....
Drug Testing and Analysis
August 29, 2017
Torsten Passie, Udo Benzenhöfer
43 citations
Abstract This article describes the context in which 3,4‐methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and other mescaline‐like compounds were explored as hallucinogens for military and intelligence purposes from the 1940s to the 1960s. Germans first tested mescaline as a “truth drug” in a military context. In the 1940s, the United States military started testing...
Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
July 24, 2017
Martin Terry, Keeper Trout
11 citations
The peyote cactus, Lophophora williamsii, is presently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance in the USA, with an exemption for use as a sacrament in bona fide religious ceremonies of the Native American Church (NAC). Any botanist or other researcher seeking to work with peyote or any of its alkaloids, must com-ply with applicable (nontrivial) regulatory requirements. This paper...
Social History of Medicine
February 15, 2017
Nancy D. Campbell
Much of the drama of A Culture’s Catalyst revolves around ‘The Night in the Tipi’, a legendary night on the Red Pheasant Reserve in the autumn of 1956 when Abram Hoffer, Humphry Osmond, Duncan Blewett and Teddy Weckowicz, accompanied by two other white men, Doug Skagi, a journalist, and Gordon Skogland, a photographer, both from the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, participated in and documented a...
Bristol Research
2017
Paul J. May
preprint
This is the Molecule of the Month entry for October 1999 about psilocybin and mescaline. It is a pdf archive version of the HTML webpage.
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
August 1, 2016
James Treat
American Indians and their traditions are a vital nexus of religion and ecology. Even postcolonial native movements that incorporate various Christian traditions are typically grounded in the natural world. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, ethnologist James Mooney happened upon one such phenomenon while conducting research in Indian Territory. Several Southern Plains tribes had taken...