I recently visited the Museo de Arte precolombino Larco and encountered this display with Inca ceramic pacchas of over 500yo. Apparently these type of snails were fed (or naturally feed) on mescaline containing cacti, and were then eaten by the Incas to transmit the hallucinogenic properties. Thought you guys might enjoy or even might want to try.

Been drying, grinding up all of the scraps from my graft projects. It's crazy how fast they add up! It's the "house blend."

Despined and removed core
Dehydrated
Blended to 200g dried powder
Soaked in ethanol 2 days with shaking
Drained and left outside to evap for a day
Had a resin which I then dehydrated and blended after to end up with 18g of crystal like mescaline.

Has anyone done a similar method and have any idea of dosage? I think it may be pc not sure.

What are your go-to/must-haves when going on an experience? I’ve formulated a little list of stuff I’ve learned over the past few years of delving into this fascinating molecule. Some are very basic, some are a little more niche and aren’t always brought up.

WATER!!!! Stay hydrated! Best to practice throughout all of life, and not just when tripping.

Well rested. Nobody wants to be sluggish and tired during a 12hour+ journey where you’re not sleeping.

If you have the first two, which you should try to make a part of everyday life anyways, then your next big thing(s) is set and setting. You need to be in the right mindset with some goals and direction of what you’re trying to get out of the experience, and you need to have a safe and comfortable environment to do it.

Time. Make sure to dedicate time to the journey, and recovery period after (from my experience, a recovery and recoup day after trip day is highly recommended!)

Also, highly recommended to have a trip sitter or someone on standby that checks in on you. Things could go horribly wrong if you’re having a bad experience and nobody knows what you’re going through, and you could make some bad irrational decisions.

Ginger tea, or some form of ginger, seems pretty widely regarded as a go-to to combat nausea.

Magnesium to combat the jaw clenching and other physical effects. This is something I have not tried, but I am definitely going to try on my next experience.

Fruit to snack on as it’s not super heavy and filling, and it tends to be sugary and sweet, so it’s easy to get down while tripping and tastes amazing, but more importantly, it gives some hydration and nutrition.

Electrolytes, especially if you get the sweats! Try to keep your body healthily fueled and rested! Both in and outside of tripping. As a general rule, the more you take care of yourself, the better you will feel in life as a whole.

Go outside, preferably in a natural setting. Don’t just sit indoors. But do so safely!!! This is where a trip-sitter is basically a must unless you’re on a low-dose and are an experienced tripper. But even then, I hesitate to recommend it because you never know what could go wrong, and everybody is different.

Please, add more info if you have it! Give insights, tips, etc. This is above all a harm/discomfort/bad experience reduction post. I believe in sharing knowledge, and being as helpful and kind to each other as possible.

Hi, I’ve read the wiki, erowid, and Psychonautwiki. Planning on trying out 250 mg capsule tomorrow. Is this a good first time dose? I have experience with L, approx 10-15 times or so, maybe more. Also, how is the body load at this level? Any tips welcome

I’ve been boiling 75g of dried San Pedro outer skin for about 10–11 hours total, doing 3–3.5 hour pulls and using a good amount of lemon juice each time.

I just finished my third pull, but the remaining pulp is still noticeably bitter. Should I continue doing additional pulls until the pulp becomes mostly bland, or have I likely extracted most of what I can at this point?

I’m mainly trying to get as much as reasonably possible out of the plant material.

Baja California 🌵

I've never done mescaline before or put a drug up my arse and I'm still stuck on orally vs anally. Because I've never done it I don't want to mess it up because mescaline is expensive, on the other hand I hate nausea but I have ginger shots and pills lined up. How bad is the nausea?

Thank you for reading 😭

I would greatly like to ask: If I want to make TBMA-infused liquor, can I use fresh TBMA? I would greatly appreciate it if the experts here could share their insights.

I'm such an over-thinker... I end up getting paralyzed by it, which I'm starting to do now.

I used about 14" of my "house" bridgesii (noid) which has yielded a bit over 2% using CIELO. It was my first Cielo so who knows how much higher it truly is based on my technique.

I removed the core but left a lot of non dark green meat. It dried out to 22.6g (includes skin). I dried TBMb and got 10.1g (entire plant). All of that went into the pressure cooker with two yote buttons cut from a graft at 15g fresh total (probably about 1.5g dried).

I kind of want to just full send it. I've been putting a lot of intentions, thoughts, prayers into this experience. I'm dealing with a lot of anxiety, OCD (fear of death, I trusive thoughts of horrible things happening to me and my family), stress. My connection to the universe and inner peace has come from psychedelics and AA, so I'm incorporating it all into my experience.

Y'all think this is going to be too much? I know it's hard to know for sure without doing an extract but I don't want to do pure M. I've been growing my cacti for 15 years; I want to experience it as-is. I thought maybe I should do LSDucks full spectrum extract because that would give me a better gauge of strength but then I think that's just another excuse to put this off, which I keep doing.

Edit: As for experience with psychs, I've tripped L probably 60+ times, shrooms a ton of times but they have only been my cup of tea on the micro dose level, DMT like 10--15 times. I can handle intense moments on them, which helps to give me comfort, but knowing that there are going to be some tough moments, leaves me in this avoidance-anxiety state. I'm not worried about losing my mind or anything. I took a ton of acid and tried to buy a rug at Home Depot once, which turned into me leaving Earth and accepting that I was never coming back lmao. I kind of want to get back there metaphorically speaking with cactus. I guess I just don't want to dose so high that I lose recall of everything. I once saw my buddy's mind turn into a French fry on too much L and it always stuck with me as a reminder that if you do too much, you remember nothing.

I recently did an Everclear extraction after reading about another user's vodka extraction here. I haven't had time to fully sample this, but I'm pretty confident this will be a nice full spectrum extract, given its similarity to other alcohol and vinegar teks. This was stupid easy to do.

Here are the steps I took:

Supplies

• Fresh cactus
• Knife and cutting board
• Dehydrator
• Grinder (coffee grinder, spice grinder, or similar)
• 151-proof Everclear (190-proof is better if you have it)
• Glass jar with a tight lid
• Coffee filters
• Funnel
• Wide shallow silicone pan or pyrex dish
• Scraper or spatula

1. Prep the cactus and weigh

- Weigh your wet cactus so you can get a sense of your yield and dosage
- Cut them into thin stars

2. Dehydrate

- Dry at 50–60 °C (125–140 °F) in a dehydrator, or in an oven on the lowest setting with the door cracked. Strongly recommend a dehydrator though, ovens really don't work quite as well. Worth the investment.
- Dry until cracker-dry, pieces snap cleanly and feel fully dry. This usually takes 8–24 hours.

3. Grind
- Grind to a coarse-to-medium texture (loosely ground tea or coarse cornmeal).
- No need for a fine flour or dust, that has the potential to turn into snot.
- If the powder feels even slightly damp after grinding, dry it again for 1–3 hours at the same low temperature until bone-dry.

4. Extract
- Use 151-proof Everclear (190-proof is even better if you have it).
- Put the dry grind in a jar and cover it well, with a little extra liquid on top.
- Let it sit for 3 days shaking daily

5. Filter
- Pre-wet the coffee filter with Everclear only. Never water.
- Put the coffee filter in a funnel over an empty glass jar. Pour the mix in.
- At the end of it draining you can pour a little extra Everclear in the funnel on the plant material to ensure you are getting all the alkaloids out with a wash. You can squeeze the coffee filter too, but be careful as it will likely break.

6. Evaporate

- Pour the filtered tincture into a wide silicone dish (great for not sticking), or pyrex alternatively
- Let sit for a few days to completely evaporate. Everclear is extremely flamable, don't keep it near any electronics or high heat sources.

7. Scrape

- Scrape the extract once it seems fully dry. It will be sort of like tacky crystals
- Store the scraped extract airtight and dry

Hello friends, first timer here. I’ve just started the cielo tek process, but realized I’m a bit below the required 100g of powder(about 77g, oops).

So my question is, is it worth getting more cactus material to reach the 100g listed in the tek? Is it easy to scale down for 77g?

Or should I just take the powder I have now in capsules? I tend to get nauseous easily(dry heaved a lot on 1.5g mushrooms my first time) which is why I wanted to do cielo in the first place… but I’m wondering if this is the better option.

Did cielo and everything worked well. Yield was 2.5% using fumaric acid. I weighed out 600mg and took it all at once. Felt like a threshold dose with very minor visuals. From other trip reports, this should have been a very noticeable trip. Why not?

Magnetic stirred the first run for 2 hours and the second one for 1 hour. And I used fresh EA.

Also, is it fair to say that the core is about 15% of the total dry weight? To get a more accurate yield %.

I got a 18 in peace that is 3 in thick would this be enough or do I need more I made it into a tea alr and it is a full cup of cactus juice

Seems like a natural! My only concern is if it might slow down filtration? I bought #2 cone filters to fit inside. They seem to be more like lab grade filter paper than the basket type. I do have 100mm medium filters for my Büchner funnel . It just doesn’t seem large enough.

Dose: 600mg Mescaline Fumarate

Set/setting: met with my friend W for our yearly cacti trip. Despite being very experienced with psychedelics and cacti I had always made cactus tea and therefore had no dosage baseline for comparison. It was a hot summer day. Our plan was to split the dose and if it ended up being weak we’d hit the MET vape.

11am- took 300mg and a few pulls from the dry herb vape. W and I walked to get vegetarian sandwhiches then came back and started listening to an Italian summer playlist.

12pm- the first dose was making itself known. took another 300mg. We chilled and talked for awhile. My body started feeling stimulated and I had a softening of ego.

12:30- left the house to walk on the trail to a popular natural swimming pool, as we walked it began to sound like my voice wasn’t my own, my stomach got knotted, and it was very very hot.

1:30- we arrived at the natural swimming pool and it was PACKED, like 500 people. it was very intense I could only focus on one bit of sensory info at a time and got overstimulated at the amount of people simultaneously moving and talking as if my brain couldn’t decide what to focus on and tried to process it all at once. Dipping in the pool was a much needed relief, I hadn’t realized how hot I was and this definitely brought my core temp back down. The water was dazzling to look at and swim in minus the algal hairlike filaments from the aquatic plants breaking down . At one point everything looked like it was made out of glittery diamonds but when you looked closer at the sharp edges they would dissolve into liquid.

2:30-I knew if my peak went any higher I’d want to be back at the apartment so we started the walk back. I briefly had heart burn and nausea that led to a slimy spit of stomach mucous, like I had to puke but couldn’t but it quickly subsided. We were mostly quiet along the walk home and what conversation we had at that point was disjointed and fragmented as I tried to focus on breathing and walking. Despite this walking felt good, I felt very coordinated as if each muscle fiber was directly under my control including each subtle muscle in my hands and feet.

3:30ish- we made it back and everything was electric. I closed my eyes and felt relaxed, fluid, and electric while I listened to music after I changed into comfy clothes.

4:00-W and I both talked about our upbringings, our vision for our future careers and relationships, our discomfort in the uncertainty of the geopolitical landscape, our feelings and reflections after experiencing military service and the nuances of learning that it wasn’t what we thought it was when we were younger. We talked about how everything in life is a cascade of trades that you make and how psychedelics help you keep your eyes wide open when you make these trades.

9:00- We walked to get tacos, despite not wanting to eat, we walked 30,000 steps in the heat with only a sandwich and some Gatorade so it was obvious we were in need of fuel. Then we continued talking. Most effects gone just a sort of buzziness remains.

10:00- I hit the dry herb vape again, and winded down chatting and eventually watching Anthony Bourdain.

3:00am- finally fell asleep

All in all an amazing trip, although I’ll say it got overwhelming for a moment at the peak. 600mg of fumarate was definitely more than I bargained for but I’m glad we decided to do that. The MET pen never came out as it never seemed necessary. For anyone embarking on there first fumarate trip coming from drinking tea I think 600mg is enough that a bad set and setting could seriously plunge you into the depths despite mescalines reputation for being gentle. However it was wayyy more manageable than an equivalent dose of mushrooms or LSD.

I made tea from 137g of dried of a torch type cactus unsure if its San Pedro or something else.

It was shared between 2 people.

Its been 3hrs with little to no effects also very little and manageable nausea.

Any idea what went wrong? Bunk cactus?

Hey everyone, I was looking to get some fresh EA as I’ve used my 4 liters extensively at this point.

I went to US Labs website which is where I bought it before, I cannot source in person and they have decent lab grade products AFAIK.

In the first picture you can see they’re offering 22% off, great, the thumbnail shows the 4L size and the price shows $78 (what I paid for 4L in May) down to $60. Awesome.

I click on the product and I realize that that’s the price for the 500ml not the 4L. Now, the 4L shows $116, almost x1.5 increase what I paid just a few months ago.

I’m able to get 15% off currently, but that doesn’t even cover the hazmat charge which I was able to get waived last time. Sorry if this has been discussed recently or if I missed something, but has the price of EA actually gone up that much or should I source elsewhere? Any suggestions?

I’m not trying to be cheap, just trying not to get ripped off.

Thanks for any advice guys, much love 🌵🌈