Word: alterna
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alterna tive to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in in verse ratio to accuracy. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss a satis factory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would be preferable to alcohol...