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Mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine) is a psychedelic alkaloid. It is mainly used as; a recreational drug, an entheogen, and a tool in use to supplement various types of practices for transcendence, including in meditation, psychonautics, and illegal psychedelic psychotherapy, whether self administered or not. Mescaline was first isolated and identified in 1897 by the German Arthur Heffter and first synthesized in 1919 by Ernst Späth.

See also

• Peyote
• The Doors of Perception
• PiHKAL
• Psychoactive drug
• List of people who have taken psychedelic drugs