SWIM's last extraction was from San Pedro, and in this case 200 mg impure sticky amber mescaline acetate became 80 mg of nearly white highly pure mescaline acetate after the cleanup. It's surprising just how many non-mescaline alkaloids San Pedro can contain.
He tried it with a Peruvian Torch extract and 200 mg became 180 mg after the cleanup. That’s a very big difference in impurities.
This was expected. The Peruvian Torch extract originally had many white crystals present in it surrounded by some amber impurities (just like in the photos in the opening post), while the last San Pedro extract was one giant sticky amber mass with no apparent crystals present.
This cleanup step using MEK for mescaline acetate is equal to the cleanup step using acetone and IPA for mescaline HCl.
SWIM found the purity of San Pedro varies a lot more than he originally thought. He’s tested quite a few extracted using the HCl tech and each one has had a large difference in impurities ranging from 10% all the way up to 60%.
Because this tech can now be cleaned up as nicely as the HCl tech, and pure mescaline acetate is stronger than mescaline HCl, he’s not using the HCl tech anymore. There’s no advantage to it now. It’s obsolete.
The only benefit to using the HCl tech is that mescaline HCl is not at all waxy, but pure mescaline acetate is only slightly waxy, not the earwax texture of the impure stuff, and not waxy enough to really make a difference.
Pure mescaline acetate is pretty much just as easily ground and poured into capsules as pure mescaline HCl is. And SWIM doesn’t get that HCl body odor from it. Has anyone else noticed that with mescaline HCl? Every time SWIM takes 100 mg or more of mescaline HCl his sweat has a salty HCl smell to it. SWIM thought this was his imagination, but whenever he takes 100 mg or more of mescaline HCl his wife smells it and a few other people smell it saying SWIM smells like the beach but in a bad chemical way, which is the smell of HCl. Very weird. I never heard of this happening to other people before.