Hello,

Just wondering...in 69ron's cactus tek, is the vinegar step really necessary? Why not just evaporate the limonene?

1: Because it would be a waste of solvent that can be re-used over and over
2: It would take a LONG LONG time, d-limonene evaporates slower than water.
3: d-limonene does not just dissolve mescaline from the cactus, it dissolves plant fats and other junk.
The vinegar is a purification because it separates only the alkaloids. (though still not only mescaline)
(Though SWIM's preferred cactus tek is the resin tek, by the way)


Good luck

you have freebase in the np
you use salts(acid) to titrate the fb into tummy friendly acid/salt form

vinegar does not make nice crystals, i'd skip it, but not the salting step in general
Note: rons tek works, i'm just not impressed with the results)


dried np yeilds crude mescaline frebase, which will rapidly convert to mescaline carbonate