This is a shortcut to dg's acetone/water/sulfuric mescaline precipitation TEK.
Process is under development and not guaranteed to work (has not been replicated yet). Numbers are rough guidelines only that could be optimized in the future. Use acetone and sulfuric acid compatible materials starting at step 2 (e g. a mason jar with appropriate lid such as commercially available polypropylene) Here is the outline:
1) Make a plain (no acid) water cacti tea that is filtered/decanted and concentrated
2) Add ~2 volumes of acetone
3) Gunk will separate quickly (5 min or less), separate gunk out, optionally also freeze precipitate and decant*
4) Add another two volumes not acetone**
5) Add a few ml of ~10% sulfuric acid (pH down at the pet store)***
6) Put in freezer for a couple days
7) Collect precipitate in a coffee filter (if nothing significant has precipitated, or to test for possible remaining nproduct in solution try adding more acetone or sulfuric and re-freezing) and let dry.
8 ) Dissolve product in dry filter and dry jar with minimal water at least 2x
9) Pour water in shallow Pyrex dish and evap at low temp in the oven
10) Optional: perform a cold acetone wash to remove any traces of sulfuric
11) Scrape and collect the potential goodies (this process now not yet verified).
The result should be sparkling crystalline and slightly off white (see image bellow). Purity and mescaline content are unkwon. First yield is on the high side, so it is though that some non-mescaline product could be present despite the clean appearance.
Some numbers/details during an experimental run
1) 164g of fresh cacti made 100ml of tea concentrate. Fresh cacti was frozen before multiple hot water extractions. After decanting/filtering, tea was concentrated to 100ml.
2) Added 200ml of acetone and chose to do the optional freeze precipitation*
4-7) This was skipped originally but since not much precipitated at step 7), I went back and added ~200 more ml of acetone and another splash of sulfuric to have more cloudiness, and that precipitated well.
10) 628mg of sparkly off white fine powder collected (see image).
11) No significant precipitation seen after adding 200ml more of acetone and a splash of sulfuric and re-precipitating.
*this may be optional, a small sample skipped this freeze precipitation and was still powdery. Experimentally yields were good with this 'cleaning' step though. It is not known if this will start to precipitate natural mescaline salts instead of (or along with) contaminants.
**Final acetone volume is currently unknown, proposing 4 volumes of acetoje per volume of tea at the moment (20%)
***Final sulfuric acid volume is unknown. With 10% sulfuric, 6ml matches to 1g of mescalime. One can always add more sulfuric during step 5 and check for new clouds/precipitation.
Process is under development and not guaranteed to work (has not been replicated yet). Numbers are rough guidelines only that could be optimized in the future. Use acetone and sulfuric acid compatible materials starting at step 2 (e g. a mason jar with appropriate lid such as commercially available polypropylene) Here is the outline:
1) Make a plain (no acid) water cacti tea that is filtered/decanted and concentrated
2) Add ~2 volumes of acetone
3) Gunk will separate quickly (5 min or less), separate gunk out, optionally also freeze precipitate and decant*
4) Add another two volumes not acetone**
5) Add a few ml of ~10% sulfuric acid (pH down at the pet store)***
6) Put in freezer for a couple days
7) Collect precipitate in a coffee filter (if nothing significant has precipitated, or to test for possible remaining nproduct in solution try adding more acetone or sulfuric and re-freezing) and let dry.
8 ) Dissolve product in dry filter and dry jar with minimal water at least 2x
9) Pour water in shallow Pyrex dish and evap at low temp in the oven
10) Optional: perform a cold acetone wash to remove any traces of sulfuric
11) Scrape and collect the potential goodies (this process now not yet verified).
The result should be sparkling crystalline and slightly off white (see image bellow). Purity and mescaline content are unkwon. First yield is on the high side, so it is though that some non-mescaline product could be present despite the clean appearance.
Some numbers/details during an experimental run
1) 164g of fresh cacti made 100ml of tea concentrate. Fresh cacti was frozen before multiple hot water extractions. After decanting/filtering, tea was concentrated to 100ml.
2) Added 200ml of acetone and chose to do the optional freeze precipitation*
4-7) This was skipped originally but since not much precipitated at step 7), I went back and added ~200 more ml of acetone and another splash of sulfuric to have more cloudiness, and that precipitated well.
10) 628mg of sparkly off white fine powder collected (see image).
11) No significant precipitation seen after adding 200ml more of acetone and a splash of sulfuric and re-precipitating.
*this may be optional, a small sample skipped this freeze precipitation and was still powdery. Experimentally yields were good with this 'cleaning' step though. It is not known if this will start to precipitate natural mescaline salts instead of (or along with) contaminants.
**Final acetone volume is currently unknown, proposing 4 volumes of acetoje per volume of tea at the moment (20%)
***Final sulfuric acid volume is unknown. With 10% sulfuric, 6ml matches to 1g of mescalime. One can always add more sulfuric during step 5 and check for new clouds/precipitation.