Buyer Beware
September, 1972
Recently I spent an hour and a half giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a Vietnam vet who'd dropped what had been sold to him as a "four-way tab of mescaline." Bear in mind that it's impossible to overdose on mescaline--the body metabolizes however much boiled-down peyote juice it can and upchucks the rest. But my clinically dead young friend hadn't taken real mescaline; it's too expensive to be available on the illicit market. He'd been sold acid laced with impurities--probably tox...
