Editing Mescaline (section)

===Notable individuals===
* [[Salvador Dalí]] experimented with mescaline believing it would enable him to use his subconscious to further his art potential.
* [[Antonin Artaud]] wrote 1947's ''The Peyote Dance'', where he describes his peyote experiences in Mexico a decade earlier.<ref>{{Cite magazine | vauthors = Doyle P |date=2019-05-20 |title=Patti Smith Channels French Poet Antonin Artaud on Peyote |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-patti-smith-channel-french-poet-antonin-artaud-on-peyote-837533/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Jerry Garcia]] took peyote prior to forming [[The Grateful Dead]] but later switched to [[LSD]] and [[N,N-Dimethyltryptamine|DMT]] since they were easier on the stomach.
* [[Allen Ginsberg]] took peyote. Part II of his poem "Howl" was inspired by a peyote vision that he had in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1968-08-10 |title=The Father of Flower Power |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/08/17/paterfamilias-i |access-date=2022-04-03 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Ken Kesey]] took peyote prior to writing ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''.
* [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] took mescaline shortly before the publication of his first book, ''[[The Imaginary (Sartre)|L'Imaginaire]]''; he had a bad trip during which he imagined that he was menaced by sea creatures. For many years following this, he persistently thought that he was being followed by lobsters, and became a patient of [[Jacques Lacan]] in hopes of being rid of them. Lobsters and crabs figure in his novel ''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]''.
* [[Havelock Ellis]] was the author of one of the first written reports to the public about an experience with mescaline (1898).<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/contemporaryrev23unkngoog#page/n142/mode/2up | vauthors = Ellis H | chapter = Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise | title = The Contemporary Review | volume = LXXIII | date = 1898 }}</ref><ref name =rudgley1993>{{cite book| vauthors = Rudgley R | date=1993 | title=The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society |chapter=VI | publisher=British Museum Press | isbn=978-0-7141-1736-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Giannini AJ |title=Drugs of Abuse |edition=Second |location=Los Angeles |publisher=Practice Management Information Corp |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-57066-053-5 }}</ref>
*[[Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz]], Polish writer, artist and philosopher, experimented with mescaline and described his experience in a 1932 book ''Nikotyna Alkohol Kokaina Peyotl Morfina Eter''.<ref name="Witkiewicz">{{cite book | vauthors = Witkiewicz SI, Biczysko S | title = Nikotyna, alkohol, kokaina, peyotl, morfina, eter+ appendix. | date = 1932 | location = Warsaw | publisher = Drukarnia Towarzystwa Polskiej Macierzy Szkolnej | url = https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Nikotyna_Alkohol_Kokaina_Peyotl_Morfina_Eter_%2B_Appendix}}</ref>
* [[Aldous Huxley]] described his experience with mescaline in the essay "[[The Doors of Perception]]" (1954).
* [[Jim Carroll]] in ''[[The Basketball Diaries (book)|The Basketball Diaries]]'' described using peyote that a friend smuggled from Mexico.
* [[Quanah Parker]], appointed by the federal government as principal chief of the entire [[Comanche]] Nation, advocated the syncretic Native American Church alternative, and fought for the legal use of peyote in the movement's religious practices.
* [[Hunter S. Thompson]] wrote an extremely detailed account of his first use of mescaline in "First Visit with Mescalito", and it appeared in his book ''[[Songs of the Doomed]]'', as well as featuring heavily in his novel ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
* Psychedelic research pioneer [[Alexander Shulgin]] said he was first inspired to explore psychedelic compounds by a mescaline experience.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alexander Shulgin: why I discover psychedelic substances |year=1996 |work=Luc Sala interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD260LPqHKA&t=3m18s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/QD260LPqHKA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|location=Mexico }}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1974, Shulgin synthesized [[2C-B]], a psychedelic phenylethylamine derivative, structurally similar to mescaline,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Papaseit E, Farré M, Pérez-Mañá C, Torrens M, Ventura M, Pujadas M, de la Torre R, González D | title = Acute Pharmacological Effects of 2C-B in Humans: An Observational Study | language = English | journal = Frontiers in Pharmacology | volume = 9 | pages = 206 | date = 2018 | pmid = 29593537 | pmc = 5859368 | doi = 10.3389/fphar.2018.00206 | doi-access = free }}</ref> and one of Shulgin's self-rated most important phenethylamine compounds together with Mescaline, [[2C-E]], [[2C-T-7]], and [[2C-T-2]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-02 |title=Mescaline |url=https://psychedelicreview.com/compound/mescaline/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Psychedelic Science Review |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Bryan Wynter]] produced ''Mars Ascends'' after trying the substance for the first time.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Bird M | title = 100 Ideas that Changed Art. | location = London | publisher = Laurence King Publishing | date = 2012 }}</ref>
* [[George Carlin]] mentioned mescaline use during his youth while being interviewed in 2008.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Dixit J |date=23 June 2008 |title=George Carlin's Last Interview |work=Psychology Today |url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200806/george-carlins-last-interview?page=4}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Santana]] told about his mescaline use in a 1989 ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' interview.<ref>{{cite magazine | vauthors = Greene A | title = Dazed and Confused: 10 Classic Drugged-Out Shows | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = 1989 | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/10-classic-drugged-out-performances-from-santana-to-green-day-20130606/1-santana-at-woodstock-1969-mescaline-0973315 | quote = Santana at Woodstock, 1969 - Mescaline }}</ref>
* Disney animator [[Ward Kimball]] described participating in a study of mescaline and peyote conducted by [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cartoonician.com/ward-kimballs-final-farewell/ |title=Ward Kimball's Final Farewell |date=4 March 2016 |publisher=cartoonician.com |access-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306095332/http://cartoonician.com/ward-kimballs-final-farewell/|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Michael Cera]] used real mescaline for the movie ''[[Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus]]'', as expressed in an interview.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/michael-cera-drugs-mescaline-crystal-fairy_n_3575056.html | work=Huffington Post | vauthors = Boardman M | title=Michael Cera Took Drugs On-Camera | date=10 July 2013}}</ref>
* [[Philip K. Dick]] was inspired to write ''[[Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said]]'' after taking mescaline.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.philipkdickfans.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/FLOW%20MY%20TEARS.HTM|title=FLOW MY TEARS |publisher=www.philipkdickfans.com|access-date=2018-05-04}}</ref>
* [[Arthur Kleps]], a psychologist turned drug legalization advocate and writer whose Neo-American Church defended use of marijuana and hallucinogens such as LSD and peyote for spiritual enlightenment and exploration, bought, in 1960, by mail from Delta Chemical Company in New York 1 g of mescaline sulfate and took 500{{nbsp}}mg. He experienced a psychedelic trip that caused profound changes in his life and outlook.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}