SWIM also experienced very mild effects from his first try with this tek. The mesc looked nearly white and scrapped up pretty dry but didn't seem all too strong. He salted with vinegar and didn't use any heat through the entire process, just dried everything out with a fan, worked great. He started with 100mg, waited two hours and took another 100mg. Definitely felt it but not what he was expecting. Decided to convert the rest to HCL, clean with acetone and 99% IPA (which didn't seem to clean much of anything), and took the remaining 100mg and fell asleep about 2 hours later. The cactus was homegrown and had been cut about 3-4 months before actually peeling and skinning it; it had just been sitting around outside trying to stay alive before that  Total yield was only around 300mg from 100 grams of the green outer flesh. I had read that more mescaline is produced from stressed cactus and I was hoping  that my extra stressed specimens would prove the point, but it seems to have gone in the other direction. No worries though, the tek definitely works and SWIM has a half pound of pachanaoi powder on the way (from HP) and will give it another shot, wish him luck!