this is the question...Dried or fresh?
id go 4 the food grade d-limo>acatate method,
from looks of tings u get a nice yeild of sticky mesc 4 ya gel caps
only downside (if were talking 69rons tekis you have to save up 4 a food dehydrator (rarrrr)
you can dry stuff without a food dehydrator, you just need a box fan and some paper towels and rubber bands. alton brown taught me that shit. i don't understand the appeal of the acetate tek. why would you want a sticky impure product? why not just use one of the newer water based resin teks if thats what you're after? i thought the point of a mescaline extraction was to get a powder that you can weigh out on a milligram scale and say "i'm taking precisely xxx mg of mescaline". that way you have some type of reliable way to titrate dosage.
your yield weighs more because its less pure i believe, or perhaps because of the natural properties of mescaline acetate, although probably not because a quick google shows that mescaline acetate should be a white somewhat waxy powder, not a red goop. the problem with the d-limo tek is that d-limonene is presumably less selective than xylene, in that the final product from a d-limo pull contains some of the subsidiary non-mescaline alkaloids in the cactus and possibly some plant oils and other natural products. this is all just fine, and even preferable if you want to preserve some of the "character" of the cactus that comes from the non-mescaline alkaloids. so it comes down the np solvent, not the salt form, you could presumably pull with xylene then make take the acetate salt from the np with vinegar and it would probably be closer to what pure mescaline acetate should look like. if you're planning on doing it enough times that you can get a good handle on the dose of your product, purity becomes less important or relevant, so you should be fine. however you should understand that the d-limo tek is essentially a very complicated resin tek, and to pull pure mescaline or something close to it you're either going to have to wash and recrystallize your product extensively or use xylene as the np solvent.your yeild is more and you can just stick that sticky mess in a gel cap n swallow
Since when is 500mg of pure mescaline a weak dose?Impossible to say, I've seen it range widely but on average, around 1g mescaline with a perfect extraction. So more than 1 dose, maybe 2 weak doses.
i still don't understand the increased popularity of the limo tek, please somebody put my prejudice to rest if it is unfounded. as i see it, its not really any cheaper, extraction-suitable d-limonene is even less easy to come by than xylene, and the product is unpredictable in terms of its stability and composition. i think people are just jumping on it cause it's "food safe" so to speak, but go and drink some d-limonene and tell me how that works out. much love to 69ron for all the work he's done but i consider this tek one of his biggest blunders. waylit's tek and the ion tek are still the superior route, IMO, and probably will be for quite some time.