The long, strange trip of mescaline

Abstract

In the 1950s, the attention of biomedical researchers abruptly switched to a newly synthesized molecule with similar hallucinogenic properties but fewer physical side effects: lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. First synthesized by Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann in 1938, LSD went on to become a recreational drug of choice in the 1960s hippy era. [...]peyote rituals eventually spread to Native Americans of the US plains, such as the Osage Nation, after they were forced into reservations.