yes i've taken to simply blending raw cactus and eating that without the cooking shizz, i still get effects, i asked a police officer if he knew where to buy some crack cocaine. but i think fresh works better then dry cactus
you had sand dunes beaches and deserts !! i've been dreaming of moving to oceania recently, im in the city with horrifically brightly lit electric trains and concrete pavements. sounds fucking sweet tripping in the desert, i can only imagine the stars in the sky
sounds bad you bumped into that guy but good idea to have called a friend for advice. well i find, too, it can be difficult catching courage in situations under pressure. what you could do is make a big voodoo of him and then just burn it or something, burning man style, or find some way to get a sense of psychological closure from this guy
jesus you thought they were trying to kill you ? maybe it shows how much you want to live ! sounds like an adventure
as for eating it, you could cook it with food, i've seen some recipes on the internet i've been wondering about trying. one of them simply fried cactus chunks with spring onions ?? i think it's pretty open to experimentation to be honest. perhaps
a mescaline sandwich !
EDIT: upon further reflection, i'd also like to push the idea that perhaps cactus alkaloids can continue to metabolize and be absorbed by the human body for a few days after you eat the cactus, in your digestion system. i ate a combination of three different organic trichaosaurus* at the same time which brought these kinds of aftereffects, and after seeing the erowid page of the different chemical makeups of the different cacti, i think i may be right
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cacti/cacti_guide/cacti_guide_trichoce.shtml
so i think similarly to mild/noticable effects lingering with LSD, for hours, even days, the cactus can also facilitate something similar, but in a different kind of metabolic way
EDIT2: i'd also like to add i think mescaline is one of the most seriously valuable substances, moreso then MDMA and perhaps even moreso [or in a different way?] then LSD.
it was both anne and sacha shulgins first trip, too ! but ofc PiHKAL readers may already know ... !
* spelt the way i like it to be spelt !