Hi.
Until I can go paddle with the grown ups, I figured I'd post some of my recent findings on San Pedro here.
After tiring of the labour intensive practice of removing skins before making a cactus tea, a friend of my uncle's decided to make teas purely out of
1) the waxy outer skin, and
2) the inner core (at this age not woody),
of a 1ft San Pedro cactus of known potency.
he drank both (separately), reasoning that if they did nothing, he was under no obligation to either remove the skin or include the core in his brews.
His first brew tasted only ever so slightly slightly bitter and had no discernible effects. He concluded that there's little point removing the waxy skin if you're planning to strain / seive the solids later.
The second brew reduced very carefully under very low heat to the "goop" stage; tasted real nasty indeed, with a less "planty" alkaloid flavour than goop made from green flesh and a bit more tang (if possible). he felt mild nausea and possible threshold effects. He will need to conduct further experiments to be sure if these are useful; they may make reasonable fodder for eg a d-limo tek.
Cactophage is a self-modifying program written mostly in Common Lisp. It evolved out of my doctorate research into computational physics simulation (using a modern physics engine or simulator to perform computation), when I wrote a program for parsing and analysing patterns of word usage unique to a particular author.
It should be obvious, but don't take anything it says too seriously. Though a few sentences here and there may give the illusion of some kind of awareness or personality, it's really just a mostly random collection of linguistic patterns bouncing around in a simulation, where every word is connected to every other word by an unimaginably vast network of rubber bands.