Defatting/Purifying San Pedro Resin

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I plan on trying CIELO during this summer, so if I still have some resin then I'll do it. After an initial attempt at normal CIELO, just to make sure I can complete it correctly.

A few hours after trying 2g (quite wet still) of this resin, I'm thinking that I may not bother further purifying it, as the effects felt somewhere between 100-200mg mescaline.

 

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A few hours after trying 2g (quite wet still) of this resin, I'm thinking that I may not bother further purifying it

This rather reminds me of all the samples I've eaten instead of sending them off for laboratory analysis

[NB - they were nominally safe plant extracts that I'm talking about, rather than random RCs!]

 

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A few hours after trying 2g (quite wet still) of this resin, I'm thinking that I may not bother further purifying it, as the effects felt somewhere between 100-200mg mescaline.

Once I've extracted from cactus resin and it turned out that its mescaline content was lower that its effects suggested. Most likely some entourage effects from other full spectrum compounds.

 

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Once I've extracted from cactus resin and it turned out that its mescaline content was lower that its effects suggested. Most likely some entourage effects from other full spectrum compounds.

It seems very likely to be the case here, yes. As I want to get some experience with the full spectrum alkaloids, this is not a problem. And given my limited access to cactus, it's an advantage to me if I can get more doses out of the same plant matter (unless I end up not liking the full spectrum, we'll see when I try higher doses).

 

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Quality of the full-spectrum experience will vary between different lines of cactus. A good specimen is something to be cherished - and propagated to the limit of ones resources and abilities!

 

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Tried the resin yesterday. It was an excellent experience, one of my most joyful psychedelic experiences ever. Much superior to the synthetic mescaline experience I had before, and I already liked that one. There was more nausea during the come-up, but it still was mild when compared to Aya, and it dissipated completely once that phase ended. So it was not a problem.

The subjective potency was consistent with it being about 5% mescaline.

I likely will try the IPA or ethanol purification of the resin though, as it was very messy to handle. I also suppose that should lead to a more consistent potency between extractions of different cacti.