A grand welcome John. Thanks for your civil service. I've got good news for you ! Being that you're in Hawaii you most likely have first hand access to acacia confusabroot bark which is invasive in Hawaii meaning you might be able to find fresh and ethically harvested root bark for your journey. A few words of wisdom, don't take short cuts on this path. Make sure you get all the appropriate safety equipment for your extractions and usage. Read around for different extraction teks, if you use ACRB aka acacia confusa root bark then you will need to follow an acid / base "A/B" extraction path because acrb has more oils and a/b usually provides cleaner final product.
Familiarize yourself with everything through and through like how to test solvent purity, spill and accident remediation and decontamination, and especially make sure that you know the extraction path from start to finish by the letter full SOP to heart. Don't try to change any steps, reinvent the wheel, and so on. Teks are usually written because they're successful the way that they are and messing with variables just increases the likelihood of poor results or outright abject failure.
I hope you're familiar with psychedelics and safe practices but if not please remember set and setting. These are as important as ppe for extraction. Things can get really uncomfortable for a person tripping if respect isn't pair to the surroundings and experience at hand. Tripping in a chaotic environment for example is grounds for a psychedelic nightmare.
I'm not a service member but my whole life I've been surrounded by combat vets and family who did serve and I've got a lot of experience in this area so if you ever need to chat, vent, just be heard feel free to reach out.
Best of luck friend
Familiarize yourself with everything through and through like how to test solvent purity, spill and accident remediation and decontamination, and especially make sure that you know the extraction path from start to finish by the letter full SOP to heart. Don't try to change any steps, reinvent the wheel, and so on. Teks are usually written because they're successful the way that they are and messing with variables just increases the likelihood of poor results or outright abject failure.
I hope you're familiar with psychedelics and safe practices but if not please remember set and setting. These are as important as ppe for extraction. Things can get really uncomfortable for a person tripping if respect isn't pair to the surroundings and experience at hand. Tripping in a chaotic environment for example is grounds for a psychedelic nightmare.
I'm not a service member but my whole life I've been surrounded by combat vets and family who did serve and I've got a lot of experience in this area so if you ever need to chat, vent, just be heard feel free to reach out.
Best of luck friend
I'm more than willing to little brother you through this as well if need be