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Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic" (Yale UP, 2019)
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new. Mike Jay's new book, Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic (Yale University Press, 2019), tells two trippy stories: one that is about Indigenous use and another about Western society's adoption of the drug in culture and medicine. He discusses perceptions of mescaline in science, culture, and the psychedelic renaissance. The book - and the discussion - is eye-opening.
Mike Jay is a freelance writer and public intellectual. He is the author of over a dozen books and regularly contributes to the the…
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