Morninggloryseed
Bluelight Crew
There is a common myth going around that mescaline is easily obtainable on the street, usually found as an adulterant in ecstasy pills. This is one of several popular and completely false myths about drugs that are commonly heard. Mescaline is not even active in doses below 150 to 200 milligrams, with 500 milligrams of the sulfate salt being a full dose. That quantity of powder is too large to fit in the pills commonly found today (with the addition of MDA/MDMA/MDE of course). In fact, mescaline is the weakest major psychedelic there is, except ibogaine (or the harmala alkaloids if you want to count them.) That right there rules out mescaline being used in pills.
Because mescaline is so weak, it is way too expensive for underground cooks to make. In other words, no one is synthesizing it for the drug market. Think about it...you can make one gram of MDMA or MDA and get 7 good doses, or make one gram of mescaline and get 2 to 3 doses. That sure doesn't sound very practical, not to mention the fact that it is not easy to make. That means that if there were really mescaline in pills it could only come from two places...Nature or a chemical supplies company. These however would not be practical sources of mescaline either.
Mescaline is found in the peyote cactus, but it is not a good source anymore for mescaline. The peyote cactus is nearly extinct and now only found in Mexico and a small part of western Texas (You friend is bullshitting you if he/she says you can find them everywhere in Arizona or New Mexico). Even the Indians who used to use it are now switching to the San Pedro and Peruvian Torch Cacti. In addition, a peyote cactus takes 10 or more years to mature and you need at least 6 for a trip, so there is no big underground peyote growing operation going on. Safe to say, peyote would not be the source of this "mescaline" people believe are in the more trippy pills.
As for the San Pedro and Peruvian Torch cacti being a source for this "mescaline" in the pills...You need a whole lot of cacti for a dose (a pound or more fresh), as there is not a lot of mescaline present. That would be very expensive, both in the cost of raising or buying the cacti, and the manual labor spent extracting the mescaline and purifying it. All so they can lace some pills? I don't think so. That just doesn't happen. Besides, mescaline is like GOLD to people who really know their psychedelics. Why would somebody sell it in a pill as MDMA when there would be a huge market for it as it were? Presently, I am stuck drinking a cup of cactus slime if I want to trip on mescaline, unless I perform a chemical extraction and purification.
It can't be pharmaceutical mescaline sulfate, because the market price is around $150 per gram (2 to 3 doses) from a chemical supply house like Sigma-Aldrich. In addition, you must have authorization from the DEA to buy it, because it is a schedule 1 drug. Not likely pill dealers would get their hands on any. Obviously that rules out that final possible source. Bottom line is mescaline is not found in pills. I truly wish it was, but it isn't.
[ 14 November 2002: Message edited by: morninggloryseed ]
Because mescaline is so weak, it is way too expensive for underground cooks to make. In other words, no one is synthesizing it for the drug market. Think about it...you can make one gram of MDMA or MDA and get 7 good doses, or make one gram of mescaline and get 2 to 3 doses. That sure doesn't sound very practical, not to mention the fact that it is not easy to make. That means that if there were really mescaline in pills it could only come from two places...Nature or a chemical supplies company. These however would not be practical sources of mescaline either.
Mescaline is found in the peyote cactus, but it is not a good source anymore for mescaline. The peyote cactus is nearly extinct and now only found in Mexico and a small part of western Texas (You friend is bullshitting you if he/she says you can find them everywhere in Arizona or New Mexico). Even the Indians who used to use it are now switching to the San Pedro and Peruvian Torch Cacti. In addition, a peyote cactus takes 10 or more years to mature and you need at least 6 for a trip, so there is no big underground peyote growing operation going on. Safe to say, peyote would not be the source of this "mescaline" people believe are in the more trippy pills.
As for the San Pedro and Peruvian Torch cacti being a source for this "mescaline" in the pills...You need a whole lot of cacti for a dose (a pound or more fresh), as there is not a lot of mescaline present. That would be very expensive, both in the cost of raising or buying the cacti, and the manual labor spent extracting the mescaline and purifying it. All so they can lace some pills? I don't think so. That just doesn't happen. Besides, mescaline is like GOLD to people who really know their psychedelics. Why would somebody sell it in a pill as MDMA when there would be a huge market for it as it were? Presently, I am stuck drinking a cup of cactus slime if I want to trip on mescaline, unless I perform a chemical extraction and purification.
It can't be pharmaceutical mescaline sulfate, because the market price is around $150 per gram (2 to 3 doses) from a chemical supply house like Sigma-Aldrich. In addition, you must have authorization from the DEA to buy it, because it is a schedule 1 drug. Not likely pill dealers would get their hands on any. Obviously that rules out that final possible source. Bottom line is mescaline is not found in pills. I truly wish it was, but it isn't.
[ 14 November 2002: Message edited by: morninggloryseed ]
