Mescaline

How long the effects last and the drug stays in your system depends on how much you’ve taken, your size and what other drugs you may have also taken.

How long it lasts

Most users chew the button shaped seeds to produce the hallucinogenic effects, which can last for between 12 to 18 hours.

Mescaline comes from button-shaped seeds found in the peyote cactus and also from some other members of the Cactaceae plant family and from the Fabaceae bean family.

These ‘peyote buttons’ are dried or mixed with water to make a hallucinogenic drink.

Mescaline has a bitter taste so some people grind peyote buttons into an off-white powder that is put into capsules.

Mescaline has been used for thousands of years and is best known as a drug used by some Native Americans in Mexico as part of their religious ceremonies.

Peyote buttons are most often chewed, but they can also be mixed with water and swallowed. Sometimes mescaline is made into a powder and put into capsules and swallowed.

Mescaline is not physically addictive, but like other hallucinogenic drugs, you can become tolerant to its effects. This means you need to take more of it to get the same effect as before.

Like drink-driving, driving when high is dangerous and illegal. If you’re caught driving under the influence, you may receive a heavy fine, driving ban, or prison sentence.

If the police catch people supplying illegal drugs in a home, club, bar or hostel, they can potentially prosecute the landlord, club owner or any other person concerned in the management of the premises.