Hello fellow members, I have been visiting The Nexus on and off for more than a year now. In that time I have learned a lot DMT, including different extractions teks, the basic chemistry behind them and which plants provide good source materials. However I have yet to try DMT in any shape or form or an extraction process for that matter. While I have have been able to acquire DMT before now, it did not feel right to me to do DMT before I had the knowledge and discipline to perform an extraction and approach the use of the substance with the respect it deserves. After much searching I finally was able to acquired half a kilogram of MHRB recently and feel I am ready to begin my journey. I figure now would be the best time to become a member and seek some guidance on my quest from this great community.

So a bit of background information about me. I have always been very inquisitive and curious about myself and the world around me and have often been called the annoying kid who asked too many questions. My passion for knowledge, discovery and adventure lead me to peruse an education in philosophy though I do not currently word in my field. Though I have no prior experience with DMT the world of psychedelics and the frontiers of the imaginal realms are not entirely unknown to me. My first encounter with a psychedelic substance was in 2015 when I tripped LSD for the first time since then I have been experimenting with LSD on and off and have had profound insights, traveled to many wondrous places, and experienced life changing visions. I have also done some work, though much less, with ketamine and found it to be useful and equally psychedelic however much less cereal and more difficult to integrate because of this. I have also been lucky enough to have had the opportunity to do some trip sitting and act as a guide in a few cases. My first experience with psilocybin recently has gotten me very interested and excited about the potential of naturally occurring plant psychedelics as I felt a clear difference in the speediness and intensity between LSD a synthetic substance and and psilycybin a natural one. What interested me most was that the psilocybin though shorter in duration less overtly crazy, and what I would say less intense was not less profound or meaning full than the world of LSD. It is these experiences that have prompted me to read extensively and watch many lectures on subject of psychedelics, religion, philosophy and their respective histories (Thank you Mckenna) and ultimately brought me here and inspired my interest int DMT.

Now... on to it. Since it is my first time working with MHRB I don't know much about it other than the color. No idea what it should smell (the redish powder kinda smells like a raw pumpkin but more woody), taste like or any of that since I got it online. I figured the first order of business was to test potency and make sure I actually received real MHRB. I was thinking of using a modified version of LAZYMAN's Tek using 50g of MHRB Bestine (heptane) as my non polar solvent instead of naphtha as I have had trouble sourcing anything other than Coleman's which I am hesitant to use because of the rust inhibitor. Though I have read that there are ways to wash it out, I think it would be wise to wait until I have a little more experience under my belt before attempting something like that. If all goes well I will perform a comparative extraction using 4 different solvents and post it in the research section. All solvents will be locally sourced to determine more affordable and convenient solvent option for my myself and my fellow Canadian Members. Any advice, tips or general words of cation would be much appreciated. Thank you.