Hi everyone,
I have been using this forum off and on as a resource for about 12 years. Never signed up for an account, just gleaned the high quality information without ever considering giving back or how the massive amounts of data and experiences that are collected here have aided me at critical moments. So, I signed up.
Been having fun with the questionnaire, researching some, winging others. We’ll see how it turns out.
A small background for myself, I am late 30s now and my first psychedelic experience was with LSD, changed the way I saw everything. I took lsd about 3-4 times in the monthes following. Then, In the following years I found shrooms and experimented with various other entheogens, including various cactus and LSA preparations.
I took a long hiatus (for a variety of circumstances) in my early 30s from everything except weed.
Then, one day last year, cleaning up the house, I find my old stash of herbal oddities and discovered a 50g bag of mhrb from 7 years previous. I had bought it and never done anything with it... so, curriousity got me.
I jump online and research teks, obviously I find my way here and attempt the foodsafe ethanol vinegar lime tek which produced a small yield of reddish brown goop that smelled like heaven in another dimension. My impatience getting the better of me, I grab a foil and a pen.
Yes, it did not work well, burnt most, splattered the rest. However, it worked enough to make me realize I -needed- to acquire a better product and smoking method.
Which I did thanks again to this forum. Following no particular tek, but general principles performed a/b and stb successfully with similar yields 4-500mg from 50g of very inexpensive bark. Side question: I used sodium carbonate as the base for both the a/b and stb, will using lye increase my yields significantly in the a/b, or shall I seek another source for plant material?
I have also made enhanced leaf with and without extracted harmalas, I greatly prefer this because of foolproof smoking method.
Anyway, I think I got sidetracked a bit, I will wrap this up by saying i haven’t had a breakthrough yet, but I am looking forward to that day. the allure of the sub breakthrough DMT experience has me curious enough to keep going, and has really had an impact on my mental/emotional well being.