At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On Tuesday afternoon, fresh Christmas wreathes ...

(AP) Michael Cera can tell you how to cook a cactus to extract its psychedelic mescaline. But he can’t tell you what a mescaline head trip is like, even though he drank the concoction. Cera and his ...

Mescaline, a natural hallucinogen known since ancient times, was not only a favorite of artists and bohemians but also a mainstay of brain research throughout the first half of the 20th century, until ...

I first learned about it while broadcasting at KVMR-FM, a hippie-staffed talk and music station that catered to alternative lifestyle folks in the northern Sierra Nevada. One guy in the office ...

To say that drug use is central to the plot of “Crystal Fairy” is not only a gross understatement, but also entirely beside the point. The consumption of mind-altering substances — more specifically ...

SAN ANTONIO — A harmless trip that even Texas movie star Matthew McConaughey recently admitted to, but one that as the DEA tells Fox San Antonio could land you behind bars. How a little South Texas ...

Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. By Mike Jay.Yale University Press; 304 pages; $26 and £18.99. MESCALINE IS THE drug that launched the modern fascination with hallucinogens. It is ...

Michael Cera wants to do mescaline in Chile in the "Crystal Fairy" trailer released Wednesday. He also doesn't want much to do with the title character, played by Gaby Hoffmann. In the clip, all Cera ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...