CACTUS

Mescaline cacti have a long history of being used in spiritual rituals by shamans in Middle and South America. The active compound in these cacti is mescaline, a powerful psychotropic which is known to induce an altered state of consciousness with intensive visions. Besides potted Peyotes (Lophophora williamsii), you will also find cuttings from the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi) which you can easily grow at home. Put them in soil and the cuttings will grow in no time!

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

ALDOUS HUXLEY