Mike Jay

Mike Jay is a historian who has written widely about the history of medicine and drugs. His books include High Society: Mind-altering drugs in history and culture and Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic.

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A Century of Mescaline

This paper provides a history of the process in which mescaline was synthesized, and 100...

The Encounter That Introduced Peyote to Western Science

This photograph is one of hundreds in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution that record...

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