Pedro contains MAOIs and sedatives so it's not at all the same thing as taking pure mescaline.
Pure mescaline is a more stimulating, cleaner experience, much more in line with something like LSD. It can be quite speedy while Pedro is a more peaceful relaxed experience, especially the first few hours. I suspect that’s one reason the cactus doesn’t wear people out as much as pure mescaline can.
With Pedro, SWIM can actually sleep for the first few hours. That’s not possible with mescaline. You feel supercharged. The peak of a pure mescaline trip can be quite energizing, leading to pacing, inability to sit still, etc., very much like LSD.
Once you’ve experience the non-mescaline alkaloids in Pedro separately from the mescaline, you realizes just how much they affect the Pedro trip. The first 4 hours of the Pedro trip is not a mescaline trip at all, it’s a combo trip made of various alkaloids in the Pedro. At the 4 hour point though, it starts getting more mescaline-like as the other alkaloids fade. But at that point, it’s normally peaked already and most of mescaline’s strong speedy effects are gone. So it’s really a different experience.
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