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Are you a bee? If so, you could get through the winter on honey alone. If not, you should probably eat food appropriate for your species.

Sounds like it's time to switch it up, go for it! Good luck finding a sweet gig.

Yes that should be fine for some days, especially if you keep it in the fridge. I wouldn't keep it around for a few months on the shelf. I think in the fridge it would be good for ages. If you froze it, it would be good for years.

@Bazooka Jesus you could use anything acidic in your kitchen, for example apple cider vinegar, or lemon juice. But regular white vinegar makes the most sense because it's chemically pretty pure. After you convert to a salt using this kind of method it would be sniffable, but not recommended. First you would have to dehydrate it to get it back to a powder, which would be a pain, and second you'd have to be very exact with your amounts because it would be easy to overshoot on the acid component and be left with unreacted acid in the product, which could be uncomfortable to sniff as it would burn your mucous membranes a bit. If you're really careful with your measurements and know some basic chemistry to calculate the amounts correctly, you could produce a sniffable salt of 5-MeO-DMT. If you were a bit off, it might be just fine. Better off just to order the oxalate or HCl in the first place though, leave it to the pros.

Maybe it's no problem, but it's so simple converting it to the salt by using vinegar, and in principle it should be more absorbable and less caustic that way, so you might as well.

Yeah but that's not the kind of thing that Leo's talking about - there's no problem with someone coming on this forum and wanting to know how to make a girl squirt. It's not about being at a sufficiently "high level" or something like that in order to be allowed to continue to participate on this forum, it's about behaviour.

Yeah honestly, just being a mod here has been eye opening in that regard as well.

I'm certain that this isn't about trying to weed out people on a "lower stage of development" or something like that, because like you say everyone's on different levels and has different areas they are growing in. So I don't think it will be necessary (or even feasible) to make an advanced area in light of this. I expect Leo is looking at banning problematic users who are here more to promote themselves, troll, ego flex, argue endlessly, refuse to listen to the advice they are being given yet come back with the same problems over and over.. stuff like that. Growth is welcome here, at any stage, and personally I don't think we need to stratify what level people are at or anything like that. I think people naturally gravitate to the kinds of questions/discussions that are appropriate for where they are at.

Oh yeah, Daniel Schmachtenberger is really worth listening to. I hope everyone on this forum checks him out.

I think this is a good move. The risk is it turns into an echo chamber around here, heavy censorship would make us blind to shortcomings etc. But the other extreme of completely openly allowing every shit discussion/participant on here without standards constantly drags everything down to the lowest common denominator. It's an impossible balance to get perfect, but it does't have to be perfect, just good enough. Some light discipline will improve the quality of this forum.

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Funny enough many people wear respirator masks as a fashion statement. Others for a sense of comfort in public, to become a bit more anonymous amongst the masses. So it's not always for disease prevention or filtering air pollution https://matcha-jp.com/en/2245 "Fashion Masks" <- they have a bunch of masks branded "MEO" lol Burner/festie fashion etc..

That story is super interesting. I've heard that many doctors are still negligent about handwashing, and that this is still an issue in hospitals (less so with nurses than docs). Perhaps @Anna1 can speak to that?

Washing your hands is the #1 thing you can do. Hospital workers often don't wear a mask, despite being in the line of fire, but they always wash their hands.

@Danioover9000 it would be great if you could edit in some links to highlight the content you feel is extremely worthwhile

@PlayOnWords I should have said Don't forget to not pull the cord!

Well luckily you don't have to get married to 5-MeO-DMT, you can have a fling and see how it goes. Just get your feet wet with it and see how it goes. You don't need to blast your brains out on 5-MeO-DMT, work with the substance step by step and explore the turf. If you're ready for it and you feel the calling, and are just a bit tentative because it's new territory, then here's a gentle push out the aircraft cabin... 1-2-3 .. Don't forget to pull the cord!

@Elham I hope you, and other people on this forum who live in similar situations, can get out of Iran and start a better life abroad. There are so many people like you who have made that happen. I don't think by leaving you are giving up on your country either - just by being present in another country you are like an ambassador for Iran, and you help link the rest of the world to Iran and raise awareness about what's going on there, and give people more reason to care and support politicians who make positive differences in the region, rather than stirring and aggravating the problems. The world needs more people like you who move across borders, linking our global family closer together. It's so tragic what happened with that plane, such a big loss of people who would have made such a difference in this world.

Just leave them be, don't move them around. They just need to be protected from freezing in the winter time, and not watered at all. They don't really need much (any?) sun when they're dormant in the winter and you're rooting them. You could find somewhere without any direct sunlight that's nice and cool, that might be the best place for rooting them. The best root growth I ever had was when I forgot about some cuttings for 1-2 years at the back of a bookshelf that was pretty shady. When I found them again, they had a big mass of roots searching for water. Where you have them is probably fine though. Currently, I have my ones that are in pots with roots unwatered, next to the windows so they're getting some light, but hopefully not growing at all because of the coolness and being dry. The ones I'm trying to root are in the shade all day, with their "feet" sitting in small pebbles, in a cool spot.

Yes there's no harm in starting up growing some cacti! In 10-20 years you won't be sad you did. Even if you never got around to eating them, it's fun to have them around as friends I really recommend checking out the 2Cs, especially 2C-E. If you ever try MAL be sure to let us know how it goes, I'm very curious about that one. @cetus56 I think that guy characterizes San Pedro really well

I'm down with doing very simple water based extractions (basically blending up the cactus, making tea with it, straining off the pulp, boiling it down to concentrate it) but not so much interested in getting solvents and doing a proper pure mescaline extraction. Seems like too much work to me personally when there are lots of other pure psychedelics to take that are very worthy. If you're into chemistry and/or curious about doing proper extractions, I think it would be really cool. I don't seek out synthetic mescaline at all because it's just way to likely to be fake.

Methallylescaline (MAL) does seem like a viable alternative to mescaline, and the dosage is much lower than for mescaline, so it's more efficient. I haven't tried MAL, so I can't compare or vouch for it personally. I didn't find cactus-eating to be so bad honestly. It's just the actual eating it part that's the challenge. There's something interesting about starting out your trip with the intense ritual of focusing your mind so that you can get the bitter bitter cactus down. After it's down the hatch, I've never experienced any nausea or anything. But if you're just after the psychedelic experience itself, eating cactus is not the best option out there. You'd be better off finding pure Mescaline (warning: this is extremely hard to source, and is notoriously regularly faked. I would by default distrust any source that claims to have pure mescaline and definitely do testing), MAL (apparently the best of the 'scalines, aka mescaline analogs, legal in many lands) or one of the 2C drugs, many of which have a big overlap with mescaline. Personally, I find 2C-D 2C-E and 2C-P to have a lot of overlap with mescaline, each in there own way, but also with their own character. 2C-E is extremely interesting and powerful. I really like cacti because you can just grow them, there's something very satisfying about having them around. It's pretty neat to be able to grow a plant that can give you a visionary experience. I encourage everyone to grow their very own solar powered mescaline factory.

@cetus56 those are some beauties! @Leo Gura amazing!

I dont know anything about the different hybrids unfortunately so you'll probably have to do some more research. Sounds like a Peruvian torch/san pedro hybrid of some variety