mescaline
noun
mes·ca·line ˈme-skə-lən 
ˈme-skə-ˌlēn
: a hallucinatory crystalline alkaloid C11H17NO3 that is the chief active principle in peyote buttons
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Colorado has a ballot initiative asking voters whether the state should define certain psychedelic plants and fungi as natural medicine, including mescaline. 
Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022 But Socha and her colleagues found no sign of mescaline (another common hallucinogenic), DMT, or cocaethylene. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022 How is Journey Colab learning from these traditional users of mescaline? Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 Could this class of drugs, which includes LSD, mescaline and many lesser-known or yet to be discovered chemicals, revive drug development for psychiatry? Danielle Schlosser, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021 Pollan recounts positive recreational experiences with opium tea and mescaline and offers a mixed report on the effect of caffeine on individuals and society. BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021 Scientific research into psilocybin, LSD and mescaline blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s, Hendricks said. al, 20 Oct. 2021 Those drugs include psilocybin, psilocyn, ecstasy, LSD, DMT, mescaline (excluding peyote) and ibogaine. NBC News, 19 Sep. 2021 The food writer studies three psychoactive plants — opium, caffeine and mescaline. The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021 See More
Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022 But Socha and her colleagues found no sign of mescaline (another common hallucinogenic), DMT, or cocaethylene. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2022 How is Journey Colab learning from these traditional users of mescaline? Louis Metzger Iv, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022 Could this class of drugs, which includes LSD, mescaline and many lesser-known or yet to be discovered chemicals, revive drug development for psychiatry? Danielle Schlosser, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2021 Pollan recounts positive recreational experiences with opium tea and mescaline and offers a mixed report on the effect of caffeine on individuals and society. BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021 Scientific research into psilocybin, LSD and mescaline blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s, Hendricks said. al, 20 Oct. 2021 Those drugs include psilocybin, psilocyn, ecstasy, LSD, DMT, mescaline (excluding peyote) and ibogaine. NBC News, 19 Sep. 2021 The food writer studies three psychoactive plants — opium, caffeine and mescaline. The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
mescaline
noun
mes·ca·line ˈmes-kə-lən -ˌlēn
-ˌlēn : a hallucinatory crystalline alkaloid C11H17NO3 that is the chief active principle in peyote buttons