One morning in the spring of 1953, writer Aldous Huxley sat down with his wife — a psychiatrist — and a tape recorder. He then proceeded to self-administer four-tenths of a gram of mescaline, the psychoactive component found in the Peyote cactus. Huxley volunteered himself as a test subject because he hoped to gain insight … Continue reading UW psychedelic research shows promise for medicine, must proceed with caution