Gone-and-Back
Rising Star
Over the past year or so, I have read reports of people obtaining psychedelic effects from simple melatonin use. These reports have peaked my interest into the activity of melatonin, and what it can really do other then regulate our sleep cycles.
I remember hearing reports of its effects becoming much more psychedelic at higher dosages or when combined with MAOI's. I figured this was the case because of the body breaking down the melatonin before all of it can be absorbed.
However, as seen with DMT, when vaporized its effects are much stronger at smaller dosages than what is needed for oral consumption to be effective, even with addition of MAOI. This made me wonder if vaporizing a normal dose of melatonin for sleep aid, would instead produce more intense and interesting effects. This brought me to search the web for reports of smoking or vaporizing melatonin, to find nothing. I did find some threads on here however about the extraction and purification of melatonin from the pills found in stores, to remove the pill binders and fillings for people who are allergic to the fillers.
This simple procedure seemed effective from what I had read, so I decided it was a good place to start in obtaining relatively pure melatonin, without the need for special licenses and such. The procedure went as follows;
1. Grind up pills into a powder.
2. Using anhydrous acetone which has been in the freezer for 24 hours, perform three seperate pulls on the pill material.
3. Filter off all remaining solids from the solution, a lab grade filter paper would be best for this as coffee filters allowed some particles to pass through.
4. Evaporate the acetone to yield relatively pure melatonin. It appears as an off-white crystaline powder, which turns more yellow with exposure to air. I assume this is the product oxidizing.
This product weighed slightly over the amount of melatonin that was supposed to be in the pills, but only by about 50-100mgs, which I contribute to the small amount of pill filler that made it through the coffee filter. When the product was vaporized off of a piece of tinfoil, it proceeded to melt into a colorless liquid before finally releasing a very small amount of vapor which smelled of indole.
Happy that the extraction went as planned, I proceeded to get ready to try vaporizing a small portion of it through a bong. I proceeded to load up about a hits worth of marijuana into my bong, and sprinkled a small portion of the extract on the top. This sprinkling was not weighed, but could not of been more then 5-10mgs.
When smoked, it has a slightly plastic like taste, almost like that of DMT. The effects hit almost instantly, giving a strange buzzing feeling throughout my entire body. My vision stretched outwards from me, almost like everything seemed to be further away then what it really was. This was very intense at first, but then slowly faded to a barely noticeable distortion. Colors seemed affected, like they were more vivid and intense. There was not any distortions in the way of breathing walls or anything like that.
My mental process also was affected. It was a very sedating feeling mentally, but at the same time it opened up my mind to higher possibilities and more complex thought processes.
Everything lasted for a couple hours. Not sure of exact duration, as I did not time the experience. If another attempt is made, I will make sure to take note of the time frame of its activity.
All in all this seems like a very interesting substance that needs more research. I would really like to give this a try after vaping a large dose of Harmalas, but alas I have depleted my stash for now, until I can extract more caapi vine.
I remember hearing reports of its effects becoming much more psychedelic at higher dosages or when combined with MAOI's. I figured this was the case because of the body breaking down the melatonin before all of it can be absorbed.
However, as seen with DMT, when vaporized its effects are much stronger at smaller dosages than what is needed for oral consumption to be effective, even with addition of MAOI. This made me wonder if vaporizing a normal dose of melatonin for sleep aid, would instead produce more intense and interesting effects. This brought me to search the web for reports of smoking or vaporizing melatonin, to find nothing. I did find some threads on here however about the extraction and purification of melatonin from the pills found in stores, to remove the pill binders and fillings for people who are allergic to the fillers.
This simple procedure seemed effective from what I had read, so I decided it was a good place to start in obtaining relatively pure melatonin, without the need for special licenses and such. The procedure went as follows;
1. Grind up pills into a powder.
2. Using anhydrous acetone which has been in the freezer for 24 hours, perform three seperate pulls on the pill material.
3. Filter off all remaining solids from the solution, a lab grade filter paper would be best for this as coffee filters allowed some particles to pass through.
4. Evaporate the acetone to yield relatively pure melatonin. It appears as an off-white crystaline powder, which turns more yellow with exposure to air. I assume this is the product oxidizing.
This product weighed slightly over the amount of melatonin that was supposed to be in the pills, but only by about 50-100mgs, which I contribute to the small amount of pill filler that made it through the coffee filter. When the product was vaporized off of a piece of tinfoil, it proceeded to melt into a colorless liquid before finally releasing a very small amount of vapor which smelled of indole.
Happy that the extraction went as planned, I proceeded to get ready to try vaporizing a small portion of it through a bong. I proceeded to load up about a hits worth of marijuana into my bong, and sprinkled a small portion of the extract on the top. This sprinkling was not weighed, but could not of been more then 5-10mgs.
When smoked, it has a slightly plastic like taste, almost like that of DMT. The effects hit almost instantly, giving a strange buzzing feeling throughout my entire body. My vision stretched outwards from me, almost like everything seemed to be further away then what it really was. This was very intense at first, but then slowly faded to a barely noticeable distortion. Colors seemed affected, like they were more vivid and intense. There was not any distortions in the way of breathing walls or anything like that.
My mental process also was affected. It was a very sedating feeling mentally, but at the same time it opened up my mind to higher possibilities and more complex thought processes.
Everything lasted for a couple hours. Not sure of exact duration, as I did not time the experience. If another attempt is made, I will make sure to take note of the time frame of its activity.
All in all this seems like a very interesting substance that needs more research. I would really like to give this a try after vaping a large dose of Harmalas, but alas I have depleted my stash for now, until I can extract more caapi vine.