Florestan
Bluelighter
Hey folks. Been a while since I posted here for sure. (I'm not a big drug user - just the odd bit of weed with a rare psychadelic experience here and there).
Following my study of some of the works of Carlos Casteneda recently, I became interested in mescaline, and read up a whole lot on the subject.
I decided, after much reading of trip reports etc, to try it out for myself in the guise of the Peruvian Torch cactus. But there's a problem...
Most places I've found cite a beginner's experience to dose around the 20g dry mark. I bought myself 40g (20 per bag from a well-known net supplier of legal wares - not sure wether I can expand on that or not, so I'll tread on the safe side until/unless I'm told otherwise). I crushed up 20g into a fine powder and gulped it all down with grapefruit juice - just adding a teaspoon of powder to a 1/3-cup of juice, giving it a quick stir and downing it. Managed the lot in maybe 15-20 minutes or so. I waited patiently for the 3hr mark and beyond, and felt very little indeed... all I could describe to you is a slight feeling of my body being "a little somewhat off" - barely noticeable at all, but at the same time definitely no placebo. Somewhat pleasant and calm, but as I say - hardly noticeable at all. I went a whole 8 hours or so then decided to down the other 20g hoping this would improve my experience, but I suspect due to the time elapsed, I merely repeated the previous experience for a number of further hours.
I had no nausia at all, however the cactus seemed rather intent on clearing out from the other end after maybe an hour or so.
I decided then, to attempt another supplier I had recalled the name of, and ordered their 30g selection. Again, I repeated the same weak-to-nothing experience that I had previously encountered.
I've now ordered 60g from that 2nd site, and intend to do it in one go, hoping that maybe I'll get somewhere through upping the dosage. Certainly there are reports left right and centre that state such a dose as... rather adventurous to say the least.
Could it possibly be anything to do with my body? (as for meds - currently on warfarin, but that's all). I'm a big guy (probably around the 18st mark - it's been a while since I weighed in - though a lot of it is gonna be beer-guttage!) in my early 30s. I've heard it said somewhere that mescaline doesn't rely much on a person's weight though... Is there something inherently problematic about my process of downing it with juice that I've not managed to pick up on?
The only credible conclusion I've been able to come to is that both these well-known sites are selling PT chips as weak as anything, and that it's going to take a whole lot more investment / downing of much more material to get even a subtle effect of the true experience. This has all been going on within the past 2 weeks or so (after research - albeit much of it from the forum of that first supplier whos threads on the subject / reports seemed to disappear suddenly in 2008 making me raise an eyebrow with a question etc)
Can anybody point me in the right direction? In whatever terms - sources, technique, weight etc. At the moment I'm thinking possibly it's just all from the same bulk batch which happens to be unbelievably weak right now, and the only way I'm going to be able to find out for sure it to fork out a crazy amount of money and research extraction to be able to observe the mescaline content directly.
Any and all comments and suggestions greatly appreciated, thanks for reading.
Dug
Following my study of some of the works of Carlos Casteneda recently, I became interested in mescaline, and read up a whole lot on the subject.
I decided, after much reading of trip reports etc, to try it out for myself in the guise of the Peruvian Torch cactus. But there's a problem...
Most places I've found cite a beginner's experience to dose around the 20g dry mark. I bought myself 40g (20 per bag from a well-known net supplier of legal wares - not sure wether I can expand on that or not, so I'll tread on the safe side until/unless I'm told otherwise). I crushed up 20g into a fine powder and gulped it all down with grapefruit juice - just adding a teaspoon of powder to a 1/3-cup of juice, giving it a quick stir and downing it. Managed the lot in maybe 15-20 minutes or so. I waited patiently for the 3hr mark and beyond, and felt very little indeed... all I could describe to you is a slight feeling of my body being "a little somewhat off" - barely noticeable at all, but at the same time definitely no placebo. Somewhat pleasant and calm, but as I say - hardly noticeable at all. I went a whole 8 hours or so then decided to down the other 20g hoping this would improve my experience, but I suspect due to the time elapsed, I merely repeated the previous experience for a number of further hours.
I had no nausia at all, however the cactus seemed rather intent on clearing out from the other end after maybe an hour or so.
I decided then, to attempt another supplier I had recalled the name of, and ordered their 30g selection. Again, I repeated the same weak-to-nothing experience that I had previously encountered.
I've now ordered 60g from that 2nd site, and intend to do it in one go, hoping that maybe I'll get somewhere through upping the dosage. Certainly there are reports left right and centre that state such a dose as... rather adventurous to say the least.
Could it possibly be anything to do with my body? (as for meds - currently on warfarin, but that's all). I'm a big guy (probably around the 18st mark - it's been a while since I weighed in - though a lot of it is gonna be beer-guttage!) in my early 30s. I've heard it said somewhere that mescaline doesn't rely much on a person's weight though... Is there something inherently problematic about my process of downing it with juice that I've not managed to pick up on?
The only credible conclusion I've been able to come to is that both these well-known sites are selling PT chips as weak as anything, and that it's going to take a whole lot more investment / downing of much more material to get even a subtle effect of the true experience. This has all been going on within the past 2 weeks or so (after research - albeit much of it from the forum of that first supplier whos threads on the subject / reports seemed to disappear suddenly in 2008 making me raise an eyebrow with a question etc)
Can anybody point me in the right direction? In whatever terms - sources, technique, weight etc. At the moment I'm thinking possibly it's just all from the same bulk batch which happens to be unbelievably weak right now, and the only way I'm going to be able to find out for sure it to fork out a crazy amount of money and research extraction to be able to observe the mescaline content directly.
Any and all comments and suggestions greatly appreciated, thanks for reading.
Dug
