Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay

Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic

Mike Jay

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced

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Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, after which the word “psychedelic” was coined to describe it. Its story, however, extends deep into prehistory: the earliest Andean ...

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