Hi Gaines,
Welcome to the Nexus as an official member.
I will be argumentative and say I know for 100% fact you have not failed. You are here and posting. You are alive and thinking. You still have time and chances.
You do know that most victories are achieved via a series of failures right? For better or wores, it is the best way to learn something deeply imo.
I don't remember jack about the chemistry classes I took over 25 years ago. Knowledge of advanced chemistry is not required for membership of this site nor is it required to safely and easily extract clean, white DMT in the comfort and safety of your own home.
I'm not sure if you had a chance to check the wiki links during your lurking time here. Wiki is in the upper right hand corner of the page. Click it to see many fine resources, including easy to follow extraction teks. I would recommend an easy Straight to Base (STB) tek such as Noman's to start.
Use the Welcome Area to post any questions, concerns, ideas, reports, etc. that you might have. If you need a fast answer in the middle of an extraction, check out the chat room.
This place is an incredible wealth of resources and information. The more I look the deeper it goes.
Anyway, might you be willing to tell us a bit more about who you are, your psychedelic experience to date, whether or not you've tried DMT and what you thought about all of this so far? Anything along these lines would be appreciated by myself and others I am sure.
Regardless, I hope you find what you are looking for here. Welcome.
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