1. MESCALINE By Jordin Hartley

2. History of Mescaline
Mescaline has been used by people for thousands of years
This Drug was used primarily by Toltec and the Chichimeca
The earliest European records concerning this sacred cactus are those of Sahagún, who lived from 1499 to 1590 and who dedicated most of his adult life to the Indians of Mexico.

3. What is Mescaline?
Mescaline is a hallucinogenic chemical found in the pulp of the peyote cactus or Lophophora williamsii
People chew the buttons in order to encounter an intense hallucinogenic experience, usually during religious ceremonies
The experience of taking mescaline is said to be similar to LSD or Psilocybin

4. Mescaline in Powder Form

5. Effects of Mescaline Extremely intense hallucinations
Out of body experiences

6. Side Effects
Vomiting
Insomnia
Dehydration
Dilated pupils

8. Why people use mescaline
Recreation
Religion
Potential healing properties (phobias, depression, addiction)

9. How is mescaline administered?
Orally (most common way) is usually made into tea or mixed with juice due to bitter taste of eating raw peyote buttons
Injection

10. DOSAGE
The usual human dosage is 200–400 milligrams of mescaline sulfate
(178–356 milligrams of mescaline hydrochloride)
The average 3-inch (76 mm) button contains about 25 mg mescaline.
(Meaning the usual human dose is 8-16 buttons)

11. Scientific Facts 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine is scientific name
It is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine family
Mescaline was first isolated and identified in 1897 by the German Arthur Heffter and first synthesized in 1919 by Ernst Späth

12. (Mescaline Molecule)

13. NO! Is mescaline found only in the Peyote Cactus?
Mescaline can be found in the following plants:
Peyote (Lophophora williamsii)
Peruvian Torch cactus (Echinopsis peruviana)
Cactaceae plant family
Fabaceae (bean) family, including Acacia berlandieri
San Pedro

14. Cactus plant, in the family of Cactaceae
Peruvian Torch Cactus

15. Who Used Mescaline?
Peyote was used by the Native Americans, especially the Huichol Indians from Mexico, for religious practices and rituals
San Pedro and the Peruvian Torch were used in other Latin American regions including Peru and Ecuador
Aldous Huxley, Havelock Ellis and Alesiter Crowley were among the first westerners to experiment with mescaline

16. Interesting facts
People have associated Mescaline with the Cubist movement begun by Pablo Picasso and George Braque. The geometrical forms and flattening of three dimensional objects in Cubist art are similar to the visual experiences of Mescaline users
Mescaline is extracted by preparing the cactus beginning with cutting the cactus from the very bottom, just above the ground. The top of the cactus that is left, or the crown, has disc-shaped forms that have been cut from the roots.
Mescaline is not addictive

17. “Girl with Dark Hair” – Pablo Picasso
 Is this what your mom would look like if you were on Mescaline?

18. More Facts
The vomiting induced by eating peyote buttons was considered to be a form of cleansing by the Native Americans
Mescaline is illegal in the United States and prohibited in other regions across the world. Certain Native American groups, however, have legal access to this substance for ritualistic ceremonies but their use is also regulated by the states in which they live

20. Sources
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mescaline