Is it possible to ingest this stuff as a powder without any MAOI's or extracting it and still receive full effects of the mescaline?

Napp

You don't need MAOI's to make cactus active. And you don't have to do an extraction either.

If you mix MAOI's with psychoactive cactus it will potentiate the effects, and certain people can have adverse effects because the stimulant effects of this combo. If doing this you would most likely be fine, just use caution, I gave myself a minor heat-stroke one time because I was being a little reckless with this combo (I was working in the hot sun and not staying well enough hydrated)

Extracts reduce the amount of material you have to consume, and some find this more pleasant.

My personal favorite method of ingestion is to just stuff the powder into capsules and eat them. You can also make a tea out of the powder, but this requires some technique to get it right and it can be quite foul tasting.

rumor around the rabbit hole has it that smoothies have worked well for powdered material, albeit bad tasting and weird textured smoothies.

Best bet however, for ease of consumption, would probably be to put in a tea bag of some sort that won't leak and proceed to do resin tek on it.

https://wiki.dmt-nexus.m...ouse%27s_Cacti_Resin_Tek

I've looked this up quite a bit but don't understand why people wouldn't just encapsulate the stuff if it would have the same effect...

Good way I found to consume it as is is to powder, then add a little water making a paste then roll into balls and swallow like pills, I can get it down a lot easier and quicker with no taste, if I gag or taste it I tend to get more nausea. Resins really easy to make also, though in my one resin attempt all it seemed to do is reduce the material you have to consume by half

Some people don't like to encapsulate the powder because they don't like to/find it hard to eat 30+ pills for a strong trip. I just capsuled up 56grams and it came out to 36 '00' capsules. It is also much easier to make an extract that can fit into a couple capsules, or just one capsule if you did it good enough.

I suspect that the effects a lemon-tek or tea has with shrooms, would also apply to cactus tea. Since it's in a liquid state it may be easier/faster for your body to absorb, thus the effects would hit sooner and stronger.

Personally I prefer the slow onset that eating the capsuled powder produces. It comes on nice and slow and lasts a long time. I think it helps reduce the nausea as well.

Cool. Thanks for all the info. I purchased only 28g of the powder when I made an order. Do you think this will be enough for a first time?

That depends on how potent your cactus is. I can say from personal experience that 28g should be a very fun time, even if the cactus is on the weaker side. And if you get the strong stuff be prepared to have an amazingly good time.

Thanks again Shrabbit, I appreciate it.

Napp