After extracting mescaline from bridgesii cactus using KASH's Tek, I was eager to give it a try. I do a lot of traveling for my job and was going to be away for a few days staying in a hotel. I purposely scheduled the first day's appointments first thing in the morning so I would have the rest of the day to trip. I scheduled my next day's appointments in the afternoon so I would be able to sleep in. I chose 500mg because I wanted to be sure I experienced full effects.

12:00pm:
I mixed the 500mg into a bottle of juice and drank about a quarter when I began my drive to the hotel (approx 50 minutes away). It was my intention to slowly sip until I arrived at the hotel. I was under the impression that it takes a good two hours for effects to kick in. However, after about 20 minutes I started to feel different and knew I was getting high. Music was sounding very good. There were very mild visual effects (blotches of light afterglow, similar to when you stare at a light bulb and then look elsewhere). So I decided to discontinue drinking until in my room.

1:00pm:
I arrive at my hotel and find it to be one that accommodates many conferences. There are about 3 going on. I get to my room, finish up some paperwork and then down another quarter of the bottle. I am starting to feel more effects, but still mild visuals. In another half hour I consume another quarter of the bottle. I find myself staring at patterns in an attempt to test the drug's effectiveness. Visuals however, remain mild (slight morphing of wood grain patterns on door).

2:30pm:
I down the remainder of my drink and decide to go for a walk. Effects are slightly stronger at this point, but no real change in intensity or visuals. I decide to get something to drink and perhaps some headphones as I forgot mine. I end up walking a mile or two trying to find a store with headphones. I end up at a large all purpose budget store. I find a pair of very cheap headphones and buy a bottle of vitamin water.

3:30pm:
No change in visuals, but effects slowly getting more intense. There is a deli next door, so I order a chicken wrap. This is where I start to realize how high I am. I am able to order and communicate without issue, but it's definitely different. I decide to eat outside and begin to slip deeper into the high. Visuals are getting rapidly more intense. I notice quick changes in patterns on the picnic table. Store signs are starting to pulse. I eat maybe a quarter of my chicken wrap and toss the rest. Effects continue to become stronger. I begin to worry that I may not be able to function in public soon. I calm myself down and decide to walk back to my hotel. I notice a cab in the parking lot and ask the driver for a ride. He makes some sarcastic remark that his fare inside the store may be upset if he leaves. He offers to call me a cab and I graciously accept. I am not sure if he can tell how messed up I am, but he is definitely guiding me through the call, telling me my location and where I should wait. I sit on a window ledge waiting for the cab and notice the clouds in the sky expanding, the blue sky is a nice color. Visuals are getting more intense, a lot of image retention effects. Cab arrives, I get in, give my destination and hope I get back soon. There is traffic, cab driver is offering apologies, I could care less. I walk straight to my room and am so thankful to be back.

4:30pm:
Drug is in full force. Very intense visuals, almost like there is a film of soapy water covering my entire visual range, but without the suds. I am experiencing slight panic as I have never taken mescaline and I am aware that 500mg is a heavy dose. Not sure how much more intense this will get. I opt to go to the bathroom and induce vomiting. This is absolutely pointless, it only serves to dehydrate me. I try my best to compose myself. I have had many experiences taking heavy doses of mushrooms and tell myself I have been here before. I find a bottle of water and concentrate on keeping myself hydrated. At this point I check my phone. The intense light of the screen is creating some fantastic visual effects, depths and patterns are rapidly changing. I find my friends asking me how my trip is going from our forum on "whatsapp". I am clear headed and able to converse with them without issue. The autocorrect feature on my iphone is working wonders. Talking to my friends brings me to a very pleasant place and I begin to enjoy my trip. I no longer am thinking about the negative effects my body may be experiencing and begin to relax.

5-7PM:
I listen to some very peaceful music and melt into my bed. My eyes are closed and I am constructing wonderful colorful patterns in my head. I continuously see Native tribal patterns. I note that this is very interesting as I typically have no association with these patterns in my day to day life. I find that I am able to control my thought process with ease. I find this very different from a heavy mushroom experience where your thoughts can so easily take you places you do not wish to go. There is absolutely no paranoia at this point. I decide to take a walk through the hotel to see how I function in public. The conferences have transitioned into a mini cocktail party in the large lobby which overlooks the pool. I walk through the crowd without worry. I find my way back to my room and continue to listen to music. Waving my hands in front of my face has fantastic effects of tracers. The soapy film continues to envelop my visual range causing mild rainbow patterns at the edges of objects. When I press the letters on my phone screen there is a rainbow ripple in water effect. I am peaceful and continue to relax. The only thing I am mindful of is the need to stay hydrated.

7:00pm:
Effects are still full force. I decide to take a shower. My shower is equipped with a sit down bench. I stay maybe a half hour with hot water pouring down my head while listening to music. It is very peaceful and calming.

8:00pm:
Effects are still strong, I lay in bed thinking about my life and how I should treat people better, especially friends and loved ones.

9:00pm - 12:00am:
I check my heart rate which is slightly elevated at 86 beats/minute. I am starting to come down, visuals are losing intensity. I am grateful for the decline. My body is very tired. I feel drained. I lay on the bed listening to music. I am hungry, but have no energy to go anywhere.

12:00am - 4:00am:
I lay in bed hoping for sleep, it does not come. I call the front desk and request a late check out which is granted.

4:00am - 12:30pm:
I finally get sleep, but wake up every hour. My sleep consists of dreams. I am cold throughout the night. I turn the temperature up and sleep with a bathrobe on.

The following day I am groggy and feel hungover. I struggle to get through my meeting. I do not eat until 6:30pm. When I return home I immediately take a nap. The next day I am completely refreshed.

I very much enjoyed the psychedelic effects, however 500mg was too intense for me to completely enjoy the trip. I think I will do half the dose my next venture out. I feel it would not matter what I was doing, I would have a great time regardless. There was absolutely no paranoia and I was able to converse with my friends with ease. I think this is a great drug to do with friends.

Thanks for reading

green rust, thanks for that trip report.

I remember when i was in Peru i got some San Pedro Cactus and ended up eating the green flesh of it one morning: I didn't eat much but it was powerful stuff. I spent the day looking at the electricity flowing along powerlines, feeling dizzy, overwhelmed and more or less 'anxious'. I tried to relieve this by drinking a lot of beer, and it did eventually calm down by eveningtime. Close eyed visuals had that 'cactus' shape, and i saw images like wolves, etc.

Personally i think that San Pedro is a 'tough' teacher and definately not something easy going. You seem to resonate that in your report -as someone used to mushrooms.

And so we differ.
Perhaps the difference is most expressed in the way a person react to it, don't "shoot" at the piano player he's really playing quite well.

Yea, probabaly unwise to try it in the amazonian Jungle. I feel Peter is better suited to the mountains of Peru.

Found Aya to be a much more pleasant experience. Maybe raw cactus isn't he way2go?

Thanks for sharing, Green Rust. I'm glad you had the opportunity to experience this medicine.

Personally, a hotel room would be the last place I would want to take any psychedelic, particularly one with a >12 hour duration. But to each their own I suppose.

All that aside, I would strongly advise that you do not take psychedelics while you are driving, even if you are under the impression that it has a very delayed onset. Especially when it is one that you have never experienced before, and thus you are completely unaware of how it will affect you.

Here we are really on opposite sides, but that's okay.

Thanks for your compassionate reply Jees.

So can you elaborate as to why? What love does the green snot have for you?

Thanks for the trip report, Green! You dove right in with a heavy trip. Glad to see you were able to reflect on your life and loved ones.
I can't wait for my Peruvians to grow out a bit more. Hopefully I'll get around to sharing some pics, soon

Always have great experience with the cactus itself.
Maybe since it was extracted the plant-teacher was checking your foundations, sort of like "hey you tossed out the rest of me". Body effects seem to be present more if my mind wanders from the experience or bad vibes are goin down.

Sounds like a great gainful experience even though it took place in a hotel.

Cacti=All thumbs up

I find that aya hold tresholds, when crossed one suddenly tumbles a layer deeper in the rabbit hole, that can be shocking and very hard. Staying at the surface levels, one might indeed not cross such a treshold and all looks nice and tidy. Those who feel "nothing" or just pleasantry on aya, were exempt of deeper layer dirt disturbance where the healing potential is the greatest.

Cacti has in my eyes an all gradual envelope, and yes it can get baffling but not as easily scary as aya. One hear more about death experiences on aya than on cacti.

Thanks for the report.

500mg of Mesc HCL is actually next on my list - possibly with a DMT starter. I've previously gone via cactus (around 65g), which gave similar effects to those you describe. However, I have to say, I wasn't so edgy with it - probably because I did it at home, and had my housemate check in on me. The only time it got sketchy is when he needed me to go outside to introduce him to someone. I later went back out again, and I went out to a nearby wooded area. The leaves were going from spring green, to deeper summer green (the colour they actually were) to autumn colours, and then back again. Great stuff.

Didn't have fun one time doing balls of cactus at a festival, but I'd already tripped that weekend, and felt drained. Didn't help that the mud got so thick you couldn't move easily. Weak dose, but enough for me to just retreat to my campsite.

Also did 330mg Mesc HCL and a tab of LSD (150ug), which was a very, very pleasant experience. That was in a flat I'd rented out with friends in Camden. Needless to say, we didn't leave the flat.

Also found mescaline is the most introspective substance - I too had around 3 hours of just thinking time once the visuals themselves had subsided. Slept like a log though, haha

Cool glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. I'll have to keep that dosage in mind, if you don't mind sharing what do you weight?

165lbs

Good report! Thank you!

Does anyone have much in the way of solid information as to how much a factor weight/size plays in trips (DMT, mesc, lucy)? I should imagine very little with lucy, maybe more so with mesc/DMT, but have no info to go on.

Reason I ask is that I'm massive (6'6 130kgs), and therefore wouldn't want to give someone a giant sized dose thinking its all fine either way.