A small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons.
The hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.
Sinônimos
Examples for "mescal"
Examples for "mescal"
1She says it was the mescal that made her husband do it.
2No drink is more Mexican than pulque, not even tequila or mescal.
3The pit being ready and the mescal gathered, the work of cooking commences.
4But one drinks much mescal, and the other has a taste for quarrel.
5Here he fetched out and handed us a bottle of mescal.
1He had followed a liter of mezcal with five bottles of Corona.
2They're Mezcallero 'Paches, and the'r food, th' mezcal, grows thick round ther'.
3Yes; they spend a part of every year here-abouts, gatherin' mezcal.
4There were briars, mezcal plants, and cacti-all luxuriant, hirsute, and thorny.
5While speaking the colonel has poured out a glass of the distilled mezcal juice.
1Lophophora williamsii, the source of peyote, which Native North Americans have been using for an estimated 5,500 years.
1Among the most useful are heroin, morphine, opium, coca, hemp, and peyote.
2I understand, however, that the symptoms of peyote poisoning and polio are identical.
3The paleface kept turning colors, the way people do when you're on peyote.
4Has their appreciation for the local stimulants ever extended to peyote?
5There were supposedly many more before peyote was outlawed in 1967.
6After ten minutes I began to feel sick from the peyote.
7But peyote is not particularly my line of substances anyway.
8People can talk themselves into anything. But it did look like a peyote plant.
9My whole body contracted in a convulsive spasm, but the peyote wouldn't come up.
10Describes the ceremony and tells how the peyote affected her.
11Reaching its margins, Kalus drew out the remaining peyote buttons.
12Dryer, less green, but still potent in their otherworldly magic: the five remaining peyote buttons.
13As usual, peyote had brought him a big Truth.
14He invited all of us to come to his place and eat peyote with him.
15We did the zombie dance, circling around Pete like Native Americans in a peyote trance.
16Cash told me about several cats from 'Frisco who had kicked junk habits with peyote.