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Mescaline (syntheyic) - experienced -rather more than expected

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For a friends birthday, a few of us decided to indulge in some synthetic mescaline one of us had managed to obtain as a thank you for doing someone a favour. So we thought, how is this going to stack up against cactus extract or the vile bitter elephat snot made from boiling said cacti to buggery.

To get the full flavour, we were going to indulge in 420mg of the hydrochloride salt, but in the end 350mg (~400mg of the hemisulphate salt)was well more than enough each - all I can say is thank fuck we didn't.

I split mine into 300mg & 120mg (the 300mg initially, the 120 as a suppliment at 30 mins in, at least that was the idea. As it was, we split the 120mg left over into 2 x 60mg piles and only ate one of them) and advised the others followed suit as I thought that a bit too much of the alkaloid to hit your stomach all at once & still feel alright. As it was, we could feel the 300mg within 20 minutes and were well away with it at the hour point. The time dilation experience was sever so 2 hours after doing it, some people though it must be at least 5am - never experiencedmore severe timr dilation.

It came on slow, like cactus extract, but had noticably less nausea, although one of out party had about 3 hours of protracted vomiting at that time, so it's not nausea free.

After much jolly banter and arfuing about the most abstract of thing, we went out with their dogs for a walk. I have never seen a green field look so fuckin' green or the sky look so bright.

Since last weekend with the mescaline, I have felt like some existential weght has been lifte off my back and I've felt 'utterly topper!' Other indulgers seem to have been put well & truely of any sort of alcohol, probably because of the mescaline (years ago it killed my taste for alcohol for nearly 12 years).

Admittedly it doesn't feel as 'spiritual' as the mixture of alkaloids from cacti, but it's still a unique experience and well worth investigating if you get the chance.


Oh BTW, nobody actually got around to the full 420mg - 350mg seemed to be ebough for everybody there - it's not a linear sort of dosing scale as it is with LSD, so you have been warned!


Finally though, I'm still of the opinion that mescaline is the creme de la creme of psychedelics (although I'm aware the number of LSD devotees are greatly in excess of those for mescaline due to it's rareity) - definitely the one to show yourself who you really are

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sounds nice. it's a shame synthetic mescaline is so hard to find.
how long did the trip last?
 
Hey FB, can you comment on the cognitive aspects of mescalinated phenomenology? IE specifically interested if you noticed little/no? cognitive dissonance as is common with some of the more brutal tryptamines.

Thanks for the report! Now I have to think about my dosage...I was planning on jumping in the deep end (500mg).
 
Mescaline is a sch 1, class A drug in the UK and is on the UN paper on compounds that should be internationally controlled. Luckily they're a lot more lax regading cacti which means that mescaline is available to antbody wishing to do a bit of detective work re cacti
Mescaline is nowhere near as brutal mentally as most tryptamines - it's almost as if you can 'opt out' and substabtially negate the majority of it's effects at will for short periods of time. Of course some people will still need the spew-bucket if phenethylamines just don't agree with them.

Agreeing or not though, 500mg of mescaline hydrochloride all in one go is going to upset your stamach and metaphysically rip you a new arsehole - at least that's theimpression I'm left with. I feel 420mg would have been a bit too much and am glad I didn't eat the whole dose in one go
 
callupjah said:
^Thanks, so out of interest..how would one go about the businesses of obtaining mescaline from the cacti?
An old man made a digital photo tutorial of him performing an extraction a few years ago.

The color/texture of pulverized cacti is quite alien; It looks almost like slime. His yield was not too bad either, but I think he lived in a desert area of America and it probably took him five YEARS of waiting to grow FIFTY POUNDS of cacti that was used as his starting material.
 
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San Pedro & Peruvian Torch (T. pachanoi & T. peruvianus) are some of the fastest growing cacti going & give a reasonable yeild. Peyote on the other hand is pretty slow, but does give better yields (but do not take peyote from the wild if you live in the area where it grows as it's becoming more & more scarece). In fact some places will even seel dried cactus chips (san pedro) as 'pot-pourri' (don't asl, I have no idea how they came up with that bit of genius! =D).

It looks almost like slime

That's because ot's a polysaccharide mucilage (aka, slime). I personally think elephant snot conveys the texture perfectly!


Once you get the cactus, there are plenty of on-line teks for doing an extraction.
 
callupjah said:
yeah so if the mescaline is in the cactus, why can't you just eat the cactus?


You are welcome to find out for yourself. Don't forget to do a trip report though as it's a while since I've had a good laugh at one; imagine the most bitter vile, elephant snot viscosity material you can, then consider that to get a decent dose you're going to need to consume in excess of 25g boiled up for hours (or eat loads & loads of dried powdered cactus in 00 size gelatin capsules that'll swell in your stomach).

The first time I had mescaline it was via the elephant snot tea method and it took nearly 2 hours to get the lot down. Out of the three of us taking it, one friend gave up half way through with a "fuck it, I don't care how good it is, nothing will make up for having to do this" (mind you, he still enjoyed the half dose, but none of us ever wanted a repeat performance! :| )
 
You guys are exagerating, it is really not bad at all IMO. Not to say I enjoyed cacti for its nutritional value but I had no problem eating the chips whole and washing them down with a liter of green tea. A small bit of non-specific stomach discomfort but overall almost no problems. Although I do think eating san pedro straigh will never take you very far out there, there is a limit to how much of that nastly shit you can ingest. However I am know for having an iron stomach.
 
^ No, a friend has ate san pedro before without much trouble (he didnt' puke). Then again this friend has a crazy stomach I think so ymmv.
 
I've managed to consume a 6" long piece of cactus, but it was frozen first so it was like a incredibly vile tasting slushee with a snot consistency.
I threw up 2 hrs later, but i'd just plugged some MDMA (~100mg) - and eaten some acid but I doubt that contributed - so I can't say for sure what caused the vomit, I have a feeling the MDMA just tipped me over the edge, as I was feeling pretty seedy after the cactus. It was watery and inoffensive though, and I felt perfectly fine after it.
 
Nope not kidding at all. You need to prepare the whole cacti right. As in only ingesting the flesh closest to the skin which contains the most alkaloids and the least slimmy nastyness. Some people are just not bothered by the taste as much as others.
 
i ate a foot of peruvian torch whole, "like a big, green cucumber". it was quite gross, but nothing unbearable.
 
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