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Rising Star
SWIM has been attempting to extract mescaline for many years, mostly from Trichocereus pachanoi (San Pedro), but also Trichocereus bridgesii (achuma) and Trichocereus peruvianus (Peruvian Torch). He’s tried pretty much every tech out there and has always netted less than 0.08% mescaline (dry weight), which is a horrible yield, considering some are stating contents of up to 5% in San Pedro.
Either all of the cacti SWIM has extracted has been weak or SWIM is doing something wrong in all his extractions.
One thing I’ve heard is that during the freebase state, you can keep pulling and pulling more and more mescaline out of the aqueous phase. I’ve also heard the same is true when salting. SWIM usually performs these steps rather quickly and does up to 4 pulls and 4 saltings.
I’m wondering if mescaline is very slow to form freebase and very slow to form a salt? Bufotenine, LSA, and DMT seem to freebase or form salts really fast. But I know some chemicals require far more time to freebase or form salts, some a few hours, some even require days to complete. If mescaline is one of the slower acting chemicals, that could explain why SWIM’s yields have been so small.
An example of this is calcium hydroxide. It takes 24 hours for calcium hydroxide to fully react with a lot of substances. Just to fully dissolve in water it takes 24 hours. It’s reactions tend to be very slow. Freebasing DMT with calcium hydroxide takes several hours, with 24 hours being best. But you can freebase DMT with ammonium hydroxide in just a few seconds in most cases.
Is mescaline a very slowly reacting substance? Does it freebase in a few seconds like most alkaloids or does it take many hours to freebase it (or salt it)?
Either all of the cacti SWIM has extracted has been weak or SWIM is doing something wrong in all his extractions.
One thing I’ve heard is that during the freebase state, you can keep pulling and pulling more and more mescaline out of the aqueous phase. I’ve also heard the same is true when salting. SWIM usually performs these steps rather quickly and does up to 4 pulls and 4 saltings.
I’m wondering if mescaline is very slow to form freebase and very slow to form a salt? Bufotenine, LSA, and DMT seem to freebase or form salts really fast. But I know some chemicals require far more time to freebase or form salts, some a few hours, some even require days to complete. If mescaline is one of the slower acting chemicals, that could explain why SWIM’s yields have been so small.
An example of this is calcium hydroxide. It takes 24 hours for calcium hydroxide to fully react with a lot of substances. Just to fully dissolve in water it takes 24 hours. It’s reactions tend to be very slow. Freebasing DMT with calcium hydroxide takes several hours, with 24 hours being best. But you can freebase DMT with ammonium hydroxide in just a few seconds in most cases.
Is mescaline a very slowly reacting substance? Does it freebase in a few seconds like most alkaloids or does it take many hours to freebase it (or salt it)?