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particularly unpleasant period when he also declared Tequila his
favorite drink.
Tequila, as most people know, comes from Mexico. What
maybe people don’t know that it’s distilled from the Blue Agave
cactus from the Tequila district near Jalisco. It’s because of
where it’s made that it’s called Tequila. Rick didn’t know this
and didn’t care. What he thought was that Tequila came from
peyote and had psychedelic worms. He said the worm in a bottle
of Mezcal was magical and that if you squeezed the shit out of it
what comes out is better than LSD. So he always ate the worm
and he always called Tequila To-Kill-Ya.
And he always got shitfaced and he always tried to damage
Roy.
But before he would do that, he would cry.
Rick liked Mezcal because he was convinced it contained
mescaline.
Mescaline (3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine) is among the world’s
oldest known psychedelics. It is the major active component
of the small dumpling cactus, Peyote (Lophophora williamsii).
Mescaline is the touchstone for all psychoactive substances. It is
the central psychedelic prototype against which everything else is
measured.
In other words, it’s the best dope on Earth.
But, of course, Rick had it wrong—there is no mescaline in
Mezcal. In fact, Mezcal isn’t even Tequila.
But Rick being wrong didn’t make life any better.
Rick would go through three stages when he drank Tequila (or
Mezcal): (a) Euphoria; (b) Melancholy; (c) Bellicosity. Somewhere
between Melancholy and Bellicosity was when he liked to listen
to Van Morrison.
Here’s just one example of the many brutal memories Roy has
of Van Morrison’s songs during Rick’s Blue Agave Period.
Higher Than The World
It happened on a cold, drizzly December night, out back of
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