This is very thorough as well as practical in showing your how to gather the supplies,get your work areas ready, as well as showing you how to put the knowledge to good old fashioned practical use. Enjoy!
The Shaman even today is a widely unknown figure in culture. A figure that is intimately related to our very roots, to our very souls perhaps. Here is a short preview from several humans in the amazon rain forest.
Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychedelic with a long history of human use. It is best known as the primary active chemical in the peyote cactus.
Chemical Formula : C11H17NO3 Chemical Weight : 211.26 Melting Point : 35-36° C (non-salt?) Melting Point : 183-186° C (Sulfate dihydrate) Melting Point : 181° C (Hydrochloride)
Soluability in water (the more soluable it is in water, the more mescaline will be extracted from the plant material in an aqueous extraction).
The two most commonly produced synthetic forms of mescaline are mescaline hydrochloride and mescaline sulfate which have very similar dosages. Mescaline sulfate is 11% heavier than mescaline hydrochloride, meaning it takes 11% _more_ mescaline sulfate by weight to get the same effects as a certain amount of mescaline hydrochloride.
If an acid–base–solvent extraction is done on the plant material the result is freebase mescaline. Freebase mescaline is 15% lighter than mescaline hydrochloride (and 25% lighter than mescaline sulfate), thereby requiring 15% _less_ material by weight for the same dose as mescaline hydrochloride. However, most (if not all) extractions end with the freebase being turned into a salt. If the extracted mescaline is not converted to a salt and the solvent is evaporated, it can readily form a salt with the carbon dioxide in the air, forming Mescaline carbonate (molecular weight unknown?).