How familiar are you with drinking cactus? There's often some pretty serious nausea with cactus - walking around with your friends is the last thing you are going to want to do. You're going to want to lay down somewhere to minimise the intense nausea.
Mixing alcohol with mescaline is a serious disservice to mescaline.
You're using one of the most beautiful substances on earth with the absolute ugliest.
Shame on you
I like to take a low dose of mescaline (threshold/stimulant to moderate psychedelic) a couple of hours before a party. Get through the come up, have most of the psychedelic effects, and then go out and start drinking as you come down.
Mescaline stops being psychedelic before it stops being stimulating. The psychedelic effects trailing off add a nice edge while the stimulation keeps you alert as you drink. Just don't go crazy. I partied too hard once and though my mind stayed alert my body got hammered. By the end of the night I just lay on the couch not being able to talk without slurring my words. I was still in a great mood, though.
I like how mescaline adapts to the situation and doesn't take over your mind. You can have a visionary trip by yourself or commune with a small group of people or get drunk and party all night. It generates a lot of goodwill towards all to boot.
Personally, I would never waste a mescaline experience by tainting it with alcohol. It's just one of those "higher order" psychedelics that I think should be saved for more reflective experiences.
If you have other psychedelics I'd take those and save the mescaline for another time.
That said, if you do take mescaline and drink, it'll numb out your trip and might just be a drunkfest. It'll also likely be harder on your body, the body load will be highly amplified and you might not end up feeling too good.
If you're going out partying on Halloween why not just stick with the booze?
Peyote and other cacti are considered by many to be a religious drug that produces a spiritual experience. Mescaline plus small amounts of alcohol is very euphoric like E. People wouldnt get mad if you just wanted to party and take e or even speed and heroin (maybe they would be judgmental but not in the same way). Its not that you are choosing the euphoria over deep psycho-spiritual revelations, but the fact that people elevate the plant to something holy and dont want it to be brought down to the level of a party drug.
I can respect that. I use peyote religiously and not just as a fun drug. However, I can also appreciate people just wanting to have fun. I have come to realize that sometimes fun is more healing and therapeutic than deep thoughts are. Sometimes you need to shut all the intellectual stuff down for a minute and just have a good time. If mescaline can offer somebody that, if they can have as much fun as if they were doing E and yet be doing less damage to their system to lower toxicity, Im not going to look down on them for that. I think most of us have done fun drugs in the past and I dont necessarily think peyote will be offended.
If you don't want to mix mescaline and alcohol, that's great! Don't do it.
I don't see the problem with spending a couple of hours tripping, coming down, and heading out on the town to have drinks while you're still too stimulated to sleep (or whatever - if it's safe for you and you like it, I won't pretend to judge).
I've attended some wonderful drug-centric parties but the majority of people don't eat mescaline on the weekends. Mescaline is a beautiful drug in part because it doesn't hijack your mind or your emotions. Together with its stimulating nature, it is a perfect psychedelic for parties. It pairs reasonably well with alcohol, which helps.
If you don't like to take psychedelics at parties, that's cool too. Personally, I don't like taking psychedelics outside in the woods. That doesn't mean I would ever tell someone that it was bad to take psychedelics in the woods. People seem to enjoy it!
It's obvious that everyone likes different things. I like to take mescaline because it makes me feel great. My primary trip on mescaline is one of estrangement from reality and a simultaneous wonder-filled appreciation of life. What better place to explore that duality than at a friend's party with a beer in your hand?
Seriously, after tripping god knows how many times in a variety of different places and with different pre/misconceptions, I have an easier time sitting around the house watching a movie or talking with friends than with trying to make it "special" every time. The drug (i.e. your brain responding to the drug) doesn't care how you come at it, it cares why. The only times I don't have a good experience are when I'm lying to myself about what I want or when I don't know ("You didn't know what you wanted? Well, it's probably not... THIS!!!" "Thanks, DMT...").
Also, I find it hard to swallow some of the sanctimony above (what is this, DMT Nexus? I kid because I love). A "disservice to mescaline"? Because the mescaline cares sooooo much about you and it pouts when you "taint" it with alcohol (heaven forbid you try to manipulate the experience with some pot, caffeine, theobromine, THH, stramonium seeds, a little benzo at the end, etc etc etc). Hate on alcohol if you want to, but I'd say that it's a pretty valid way to round off the side effects. The mescaline never makes me feel bad about it the next time.
What experience should I be having? Forget that, just have it for me, I'd probably just taint it somehow.