Culture | Cactus spirit
A mind-bending history of mescaline
For Aldous Huxley, the cactus-derived drug opened the doors of perception
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. By Mike Jay.Yale University Press; 304 pages; $26 and £18.99.
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