Associations to the word «Mescaline»

Wiktionary

MESCALINE, noun. A psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine class found naturally in several species of cacti, including peyote Lophophora williamsii, the San Pedro cactus Echinopsis pachanoi, and the Peruvian torch Echinopsis peruviana.

Dictionary definition

MESCALINE, noun. The hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.

Wise words

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