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Probably if your goal was to get mescaline quickly, you should get several cuts, ideally with a growth tip and roots. I'd prioritize growth tip over roots for sure since it's easy to get them to form roots. Growing from seed Is more rewarding and economical, but longer to bootstrap

@Serotoninluv it's really hard to answer that because it depends on your location, the exact strain you're growing, your growing skills, how much of a trip you want. Let's say it's a multi-year project. Better get started soon! Cost is minimal, time is minimal too once you get it set up. They are not princesses for your attention at all. Solar powered mescaline factory!

@cetus56 thumbs up ..and holy smokes that's a fat cactus in that video I wish I could grow them like that.

Awesome, I always wanted to try grafting onto pereskiopsis! Cool to hear it worked out for you. There are some amazing photos of this on the web. I'd love to run a peyote farm. That seems like a really good method I'd let the roots develop further, wait till they get longer and thicker. There's really no rush with these guys to get them in soil, it's shocking how hardy they are out of soil. I didn't believe it when I heard about it, until I saw it for myself. Depending on your latitude you might not want to be giving it water for a while anyways. You really don't want to water these cacti in the winter months when the light is lower, because they will grow tall and skinny (etiolation). Where I live, my san pedro/peruvian torch get no water between the months of September and March or April (-ish, depending on the season)

Dont put it in soil until it develops roots! Theres no need to have it in soil at all until it grows roots, that's just asking for mold problems. Trust me these plants are amazingly hardy and can survive cut and out of soil for years. I've had one I forgot about on my shelf for 2 years, and it was all covered in roots at the end of that. Popped it in some special blended cactus soil and it grew nice and strong. You can prop it up vertically or prop it in some gravel in a pot so it knows which way is down and puts out roots on the right end, but keep it out of soil.

Haha you're going to wish it tasted like aloe vera ? ? This is why I don't worry too much about people over-dosing san pedro - if you're the sort of person who can manage to eat a lot of it, you're also the sort of person who can handle the experience. It has a built in safety valve, and the bitterness is directly proportional to the alkaloid content, you can taste what you're getting yourself into. I've always just cut the skin and spines off and eaten the flesh straight up, cutting out the core too if it's too woody. However, it might be more sensible to make a tea and down that. One thing to note is that mescaline is an extremely stable molecule, so you run no risk of degrading it by over-boiling your tea (unlike with mushroom tea, in which psilocybin is very fragile and degrades easily). The risk is more of under-extracting, because the cactus is a very hardy plant, so it keeps itself really locked up in it's own structure. You're going to want to slice the cactus very very thin, and boil it for a long time to make sure you're extracting all of the mescaline. As for your second question, yes you can propagate a san pedro cactus from a cutting. Ideally you'll end up with a growth tip (the top/end of the cactus) and keep a few inches of cactus below that, say 3-4". Try to prop it pointing up. Keep it dry. After some months, it will usually put out some roots to search for water. Once it has the beginning of some roots, you can pot it in some cactus soil. I usually still keep it dry for a while to let the roots grow a little more. The main risk with propagating these cacti is putting it in soil and giving it moisture too early as they are vulnerable to molds. They can go an extremely long time without water, like over a year easily, so there's no need to rush it.

Nice report @Jin Kyu Park thank you.

Yeah I'm extremely conservative when it comes to psychedelic dosing, but IME San Pedro is completely different than measuring powders or putting blotters in your mouth. It's so difficult to eat, that your body will tell you when it's time to stop. It's hard to get in over your head because it's not something you just pop down the hatch. It would be a completely different story if you had mescaline extract or pure mescaline.

I've eaten it a few times. Basically it's hard to dose precisely and hard to take too much, so you just eat as much as you can handle.

Kratom is addictive and works much in the same way that other opiod drugs do. It seems to be less destructive than true opiates, and definitely less so than synthetic opioids like fentanyl. It's probably best avoided unless you're using it in lieu of one of these more dangerous pain killing drugs, or are an opioid addict trying to get off the junk.

I don't think a dewormer med would have any negative interactions. Going to 50mg should make the difference. I'd be surprised if it matters much if the DPT is dissolved or not - but can't hurt to make sure it's in solution. Keep us updated on how it goes.

20mg isn't a big dose, but I would have expected to feel something more defined than that for sure. It could be that you're a bit hard-headed (you need a bigger dose than normal), your plugging technique wasn't quite right, or that the plugging ROA isn't for you. Try out 40mg, and if that isn't delivering a full fledged trip, perhaps try sniffing it. Other things to check out are: are you taking any meds or did you drink alcohol before dosing? @Jin Kyu Park

Stay away from the dissociatives like ketamine and PCP, which people sometimes confuse with psychedelics. MDMA can become a bit habit-forming and isnt' healthy to take all the time, so you can avoid that too. The classic psychedelics like LSD, mushrooms and so on are anti-addictive. You'll probably find yourself ditching all kinds of addictive habits and behaviours when you take them.

Yeah mostly, but I think I also mean something of a seriousness or depth that certain psychedelics posses. Some psychedelics come more sugar-coated and some are more raw and badass. Some of the psychedelics that have a bit of this edge I'd say are: LSD, 4-AcO-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, magic mushrooms. I'm sure ayahuasca and DMT have it, but haven't personally sampled them. DPT has a lot of edge - almost too much! 2C-E is edgy despite being a phenethylamine. Less edgy, IMO, are 2C-D, 2C-B, 4-AcO-MET and the other ones I mentioned in a previous post about beginner friendly ones. This is all really just psychedelic nerdery though. It's not 100% relevant to the trip you have. Individual differences, dosage, set and setting all are probably a lot more important than the nuances of the different compounds' flavours. But it's pretty interesting to explore! I think what I'd call the less edgy compounds are probably more beginner friendly in general, and the more edgy ones are probably more revelatory and transformative in general. And like anything there are exceptions, and there's really no reason a "beginner" can't start out with a mild dose of an edgy compound like LSD

What compendium of High Consciousness Resources would be complete without some Timothy Leary? Timothy Leary remains a controversial figure both within the psychedelic community and outside of it in the public eye. For better or worse, there's no denying that he had a big impact on the trajectory psychedelic culture. ***** His book "The Psychedelic Experience" was co-authored by Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass). It's a manual for navigating psychedelic experiences, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Here, he reads from the book. It's a very useful roadmap for a deep trip, highly recommended resource:

Yeah it could be something like that - maybe it's missing some of the edge of LSD, which makes it more approachable, but when it gets higher dose territory you need that edge to stay sharp and not loose your shit I was thinking about it in a different way though, that AL-LAD just has a bit of a silly, fun quality to it, and that when you turn that up to 10 it gets very discombobulating. Back to the OPs question though: some of the 2C drugs are very beginner friendly. 2C-D is probably the mildest psychedelic that exists, and 2C-C is reputedly also extremely easy access yet also rewarding to vets. Mescaline is hard to ingest from cacti and unobtanium in synthetic form, but is very kind. MDMA is slightly psychedelic, and is very easy, but also some risks, and for many people is less rewarding than actual psychedelics. The 2C, mescaline and MDMA molecules all belong to the phenethylamine class. Phenethylamines often have less edge and more rounded quality than the tryptamines

You're mixing up your trip experience with the compound itself here. The experiences you had on LSD were not produced by the LSD, they came from your own mind and were amplified by the LSD, which is a generic mind-expander. The fear etc that you experienced are not an inherent quality of LSD, it was something that was going on in yourself, and the LSD magnified it. That being said, AL-LAD is more happy-go-lucky than LSD, and AL-LAD doesn't last as long either, which makes it easier to manage. And LSD is more forceful and ego-orientied too (paradoxically both dissolving and amplifying). On the other hand AL-LAD actually gets more confusing and out of control when you go to higher doses. LSD is extremely "in control", as far as psychedelics go it might be the most in control psychedelic considering the magnitude of effects. Of course this is all just my opinion, bu this is speaking after a couple hundred trips on a wide array of psychedelics, and nerding out for decades on psychedelic information. As with all things, but especially psychedelics, YMMV!

Any use of language is inherently dualistic. You can't get out of it by changing some pronouns. You literally can't communicate without making differentiation. Dualism isn't a sin we need to avoid, it's an aspect or a perspective of reality. The trick is to also see things also from the unconditioned nondual perspective.

John Nash was a schizophrenic and mathematical genius. His story was dramatized in the movie "A beautiful mind". You could study his life for insights on this topic.

Some say bananas are better than purple. What's YOUR opinion?

Oh that makes more sense . Yes good idea to read some quality material before entering a trip, the content can influence and guide your trip in a positive way. It's hard to make specific suggestions because the possibilities are completely wide open, you could literally read on any subject and this material will seep into your trip. You could pick a book that is very high quality, higher ground material that really resonates with you. If you wanted some really classic material, you could check out Ram Dass' works (aka Richard Alpert). That just came to mind, but there are so many possibilities here. I'd just suggest to go for the highest ground that you can vibe with.

Yeah definitely don't bother with the books, it's pretty hard to read while you're tripping, and not necessary at all. Music can be like a massage for your tripping mind, definitely have some great music queued up for your trip. I recommend going into it with a light belly, not fully fasted, but definitely not full. Have a bit of fruit on hand in case you need to get your blood sugar up during the voyage. It can be nice to drink some mint tea with honey or something like that as you get into the late part of your trip. Wear light and comfortable clothes, layers. Stretchy, soft, warm materials are really good. Put your phone away, turn it to silent, turn off your computer screen. Go for a walk at some point. 1g should be a very nice, and light, dose Have fun!

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@Gili Trawangan Check out "The Growth Mindset" by Dr. Dweck I'm with you in that positive affirmations and such don't resonate. You can change your core beliefs by adopting a growth mindset, and then working on the thing you want to change, knowing that it's human nature to change, incrementally or radically. You don't become "good with people" by repeating a mantra. Rather, you observe and acknowledge where you are at on that axis of "good with people", recognize that you can improve your skill in that area, and then take the steps to get better at it, by actually going out and practicing with people. If you stay at home and repeat an affirmation that you're good with people, a part of your mind will resist and push back, and you will be missing the chance to go out and get better at being good with people.

Great topic @7thLetter Android: Space: "Space" app to keep general tabs on my usage, and to nag me when I've been on my phone too long. Nice clean app. App Usage: app on Android, which gives a detailed breakdown on how much time you're spending on which apps. It's giving me very good data to help not waste my life on less meaningful time on social media etc. Chrome: StayFocused: lets you set maximum allowed time on different sites per day. So you can ration your usage of social media sites, forums (ahem..) etc. I used to use some other extension that would give a breakdown of total time on different sites per day, but I forgot which one it was and would like to find it again. Any recommendations?? These types of apps have potential for massive privacy invasion, abusive data sharing, so be wary. Ideally you'd have enough self control to not need them, but most of us monkeys are like junkies locked in a room with an endless supply of heroin when it comes to digital media, so these tools can be very helpful.