Cooking, super duper beautiful, is even more great when one has the ability, the care, to do it well themselves. Food, she is one thing, drugs, well they are a whole different kettle of fish.
Not really though, the same theory applies in the drug space as the sustenance one; keep it simple, learn from every cook and be motivated to do it better. Additionally, if you are supplying drugs to people an included intention in your own trips really should be to learn how to do it all better: growing, cooking, consuming, facilitating.
Going to do some cool shit here, cook all types of great stuff, starting with the easy and safe before moving into the not as easy or safe. When mentioning safe and easy talking about the process not the consumption. For example, the last thing we make will be the purest form of DMT without requiring complicated equipment, however acid/non-safe chemicals are required in the process.
Great thing about the DMT extraction is that it has similarities, close similarities, to the extraction of pure mescaline and psilocybin.
Mescaline introduction
Have been experimenting with mescaline. The drink version is down just about pat but it is not perfect for me, still found it very hard to swallow. However, since the base recipe is as good as, if not better quality than others have tried it is time to move into the preferred territory. The preferred territory is one single pill or one mouthful without extracting the mescaline with chemicals, am going to take you through this easy easy process.
Lots of San Pedro in my bags, took a trip to Otavalo where saw a huge cactus growing the other day. Today, knocked on the door and asked if they would let me take some cuttings. Yes, the answer, a big cutting and then a bunch of stuff that was lying on the ground. It will yield plenty of good times.
The plant itself is old, huge, three or four metres high, additionally it will become four or five more plants. All these cuttings, knock the top 10 or centimetres off, chuck them in a pot with good soil, give it a good watering and place it where there is lots of access to the sun. There’s a gardening section here somewhere, go into the growing more there.
A San Pedro cactus consists of some key parts; the epidermis (skin, same name as our skin, epidermis refers to the outer/most superficial layer of skin), the clorenchyma which is the dark green flesh just under the skin, parenchyma being the almost white flesh, the pith or core and the stem.
Mescaline, well, the studies are still out on which part contains the most alkaloids, alkaloids being what we are after, mescaline itself being one. However, the general consensus at this point is that the clorenchyma contains the highest concentration, the pith next, followed by the parenchyma and finally the skin. The stem, or root, has little to no active alkaloids from my research.
Clearly, we want to maximise the amount of dark green in the mix but will come back to that part.
Mescaline works primarily on the neurotransmitters, seratonin receptors, in the brain. Seratonin allows messages to pass the little gap between neurons, and it affects a bunch of stuff. In the mescaline case the 5-HT2A receptor is our primary interest, changes in its balance affect mood, sensory perception and cognition.
Cognition, the important word with all psychedelics, as it is a mental process which includes thinking, perception, attention, language, memory and learning amongst other things. In the psychedelic world it is necessary to understand perception, how we perceive the world.
Mescaline, from readings, most affects the prefontal cortex and the locus coeruleus (part of the brain stem). The prefrontal cortex our main interest as it is responsible for higher level cognitive functions such as cognitive flexibility. Cognitive flexibility simply means the adaption of thinking and behaviour in response to changes, hence it is a key requirement in perception.
World perception is in our bodies, a majority of our life perceives a world from the point of the body perceiving. Adding a psychedelic substance can significantly change that perception to the point where experience now is void of body, however, five to 18 hours later depending on the drug, we are back in our space of body and perception that we know.
Hence, the addition of the drug imbalances the brain and creates the outcomes, hallucinogenic or other. It is simply a biological process and nothing else, there are no spirits, gods, beliefs, theories, guesses, wants, desires, attachments, cliques involved. If you cannot understand and accept this and you are feeding drugs into your body you are a junkie and a junkie only. Everybody the writer has ever met in the psychedelic space is a junkie and is destroying the environment and the people they are supposed to be supporting through pure ignorance.
From a technical perspective this is as far as we go, but if you do not understand it and accept it prior to introducing the drug to your system you have no foundation of understanding of yourself, no grounding, and you are wasting the medicine. Additionally, every word you say about both healing and the medicines is pure bollocks. Be better please.
San Pedro preparation and cooking
Really, there is no preparation required when readying San Pedro for consumption, can literally chop or blend it up as it is with a bit of water and drink her straight down. It will be a lot of volume given that one 30 centimetre piece of cactus is generally about a high dose.
Alternatively, we can make the consumption easier on ourselves. After some experimentation the final product is as close to perfect as can be. From the spoon it can easily be seen how thick the stuff is now, one tablespoon will be enough to get most people rocking and then some.
Correct, it does not look pretty. The ground cactus on the right is the first drying batch, dried a bit less than the photo above, it yielded approximately four high doses (four doses fitting comfortably on two dessert spoons). The drying batch above will be five to six doses, but this is a guess so need to test it first, may be more or less. Testing, yes, the fun part!
However, it is not the finished product. There is one more step, to dry the thick sludge in the sun, turn it completely into a powder, chuck it in some pills and then mescaline could not be any easier to consume.
Let’s backtrack, close to perfect, yeah it is phenomenally good but every time coming back to cooking will look to improve. Every single person working with this stuff/s should be looking to improve at all times in every single thing that they do otherwise they are about as useful as a glass dunny door, especially when facilitating.
This mix is the super simple version; chop the whole cactus up, add water and boil away on the stove in a few steps.
Step one, blend it all up, cover in water and bring to a gentle simmer, leave to do so for at least an hour, drain/strain and repeat four times. Or repeat as many times as is required until the water after cooking has very little green in it and the smell is very light.
Important to change the water due to diffusion. Not osmosis am pretty sure, diffusion. Osmosis is the movement of water across cell membranes where diffusion is the movement of particles. Once the water and the cactus have reached an equilibrium no more particles will pass, in order for diffusion to be possible it needs a gradient difference, a high concentration to low concentration. So, therefore, the water can only take on so many particles/alkaloids, mescaline, and doing this step only once will not maximise the final solution.
Please, don’t be lazy, give what we do full attention and care. This whole process, pre-drying, took 12 hours, thereabouts.
It is best to filter through a t-shirt or something that does not allow little pieces of plant to go through it, want the final product to be smooth. Discard the cactus.
Step two, the liquid which has been kept put it on the stove and bring to a gentle simmer. Simmer and simmer and simmer some more. Once most of the water has evaporated turn the temperature down very low and check on it every few minutes, eventually it will become the thick sludge in the photos. Leave it too long and your mix can turn fucked very quickly (burn very quickly). The final hour or so of cooking requires constant attention.
Most people will be fine eating one tablespoon of this stuff (from a swallowing perspective), but it still makes me want to chuck so the next step is the best of the best.
Line a metal try with baking paper and spread the mixture on it thin and even. Put it out in the sun, leave it there and when you can break it apart with the fingers into a powder type thing she is ready, ready ready. Now, one teaspoon of this will take you to unknown places. Personally am going to double teaspoon, maybe even tablespoon it, when testing just to make sure sure for quality and safety assurances, and, of course, to have a bloody good unpredictable time. After all, testing without cowardice is what a good medicine provider does, or any medicine provider worth their weight in anything other than shit does.
There are other ways and things that can be done that may enhance the strength, for instance freezing and thawing the cactus four or so times before starting the extraction. Or, only using the dark green from the cactus. In the future the mix from here will be skinless, also because the cactus is being dried first.
The freezing can be avoided by blending too, very similar outcome but am not sure if they are equally effective, can do both for extra assurance. I cannot do both, no freezer. Freezing/blending helps to break down the cell walls of the plant, opening it up to allow maximum mescaline to change hands.
The skin is the only thing that has been removed in the drying cactus photo, it contains very little active alkaloids so not to worry. Have simply peeled the skin off, cut it into slithers and left it out in the sun. When the cactus is very dry and comes with a crack when tearing it apart with the fingers, break it up, put it in a container and leave in a cool dry place. It will keep for years. Always ready to make a brew on short notice.
Italicised short because the cooking process will never be short. If you have no time, blend your dose of dry stuff up and stuff it in your gob, follow with a little water and you’ll trip very effectively. The taste will be awful. Found that a sip of black sugarless coffee as a chaser helps to get rid of the taste almost immediately. Bitter following bitter.
Side note; the first batch that I made had my hands on the cactus for about five hours or so, about six hours later lying in bed started to go into full-blown trip mode, it was very unexpected, very awesome. So, main point here, mescaline clearly can be absorbed through the skin, take note and precautions if you are not open to accidental journeys.
To be honest, don’t know why you wouldn’t be, uncertainty and unpredictability is the purest of awesome fun when it comes to drugs.
Mescaline – The outcome
It worked, really really worked. Not only did it work it was very easy to consume without having to put the powder in pills. 10 hours tripping, followed by a good sleep and woke up still tripping. Yes, the final product is excellent.
Excellent, and hence the end of our mescaline making journey together. This does not mean that the product is the very best it can be, as mentioned each new batch comes with the learnings from the previous to continue to improve. However, from your starting point the process will yield a fantastic medicine, start here and continue to improve, be the best medicine provider you can be.
Happy tripping and will be back here with preparing the next substance soon enough.
Update post final quality assurance test; phenomenal medicine, just phenomenal. All parts from consuming to tripping was super super beautiful. Tripped absolute ball, not quite balls, you would have had quite an interesting time were the dose in your body instead of mine yesterday. Mescaline from Fred’s kitchen, she is ready for the world.
What’s next?? Exciting, exciting.