Cacti powder - noob questions

[ChickenBrah]

Sup y'all?

Allright so I'd like to purchase and consume cacti powder online. This will be my first experience. The website I wan to to buy from advertises it as "incense p0wder"- -snip-

Is that normal?

Also what are some ways I can consume it? What should be my first dose?

Thanks!

 

[Jesusgreen]

Please don't bump your thread after 5 minutes with no reply, be patient. If the thread has had no reply after a few days and your question has not been answered, then it's okay to bump, but otherwise please don't.

Source discussion is not allowed here, this includes sources for ethnobotanicals.

It was almost certainly labelled as incense because offering a product as a drug, openly admitting it is for human consumption, can cause a lot of legal trouble, this is the same reason you'll see research chemicals sometimes sold as "bath salts" or "plant food" etc.

We also already have a main thread for Mescaline/Cacti Dosage & Methods of Administration. I'll merge this thread with that one once you've had a chance to reply

For reference, you can find the main threads by visiting the Psychedelic Index, which is linked at the top of the forum in big blue font. In your case you would look for the Mescaline/Cacti thread, and then look through that topic's main post for any relevant subthreads, where you can find the link for the Dosage & Methods of Administration thread. Hope this helps.

Unfortunately I have no experience with Mescaline/Cacti myself but I'm sure one of connoisseurs will be able to help you out

 

[Solipsis]

I tried using cactus powder myself by making a sort of soup and boiling that down to a goo, it was quite impossible to ingest.
If you do choose to make a water-based preparation of your powder I would do freeze-thaw cycles to bust open the plant cells, that should make it more possible to let the mescaline seep into the water and to strain the excess plant materials afterwards.
Also concentrating a slurry drink into a goo is also not what you want, slime is extremely hard to bite down and swallow. You'd be better off drinking larger amounts of cactus tea in the course of an hour. Taking an hour to ingest your cactus also serves to prevent the chance of nausea.

Instead though, I would advise a crude extraction using high grade alcohols (do a search about how to do that) to concentrate the amount of material to ingest.

 

[Ismene]

Trying to drink cactus snot is almost like medieval torture. It is absolutely horrendous - I was gagging just at the smell, never mind actually putting the shit in my mouth. You need a very, very strong willpower and gag-reflex not to vomit it back up immediately.

I wouldn't bother trying any of the "mix it with ice cream" methods. Unless you think dogshit smothered in ketchup would taste better than plain dogshit.

 

[Solipsis]

Trying to drink cactus snot is almost like medieval torture. It is absolutely horrendous - I was gagging just at the smell, never mind actually putting the shit in my mouth. You need a very, very strong willpower and gag-reflex not to vomit it back up immediately.

Imagine burning the snot slightly and also having added lemon juice to try and aid the 'extraction' (?). My dad ate nearly nothing but I finished like 2/3 of my soup plate. Still only had a threshold experience. We had the exhilarating joy of being trapped in a smooth snowstorm while taking a winter walk, that was the only time I had effects, mostly comparable to highly enjoyable and strong HPPD effects now that I think of it.

I wouldn't bother trying any of the "mix it with ice cream" methods. Unless you think dogshit smothered in ketchup would taste better than plain dogshit.

Marginally?

 

[Ismene]

^^

I remember taking the cactus powder in capsule form to "avoid the taste" - then I remembered how once cactus powder hits water it expands to about 5 times it's original volume which it was now merrily doing in my stomach. I was vomiting for about 15 hours.

Perhaps a touch of lemon curd, ice-cream and ketchup?

 

[Solipsis]

Dude, I thought you wrote 'lemon turd' xD

But yeah no, cactus or mescaline balls or caps are probably only a wise idea after having done a crude extraction to lose most of the plant stuff first.

 

[ChickenBrah]

Thanks guys!