So. I had my first little encounter with mescaline a couple days ago. I would hazard against calling it a psychedelic experience because there weren't any visuals and it acted more like a simple euphoriant rather than the potent psychedelic drug that it is. I felt really good that day. It was my birthday so I thought, why not celebrate with some psychonautical exploration.The drug was taken as the acetate salt in the form of starched goo balls.


Cactus sections were chunked and diced. They were then spread out on a tray to dry. Yielded 142.3 grams of dried cactus chunks. The dried chunks were ground into a coarse powder and boiled for 20 minutes in excess vinegar. The solids were strained out and mixed once again with excess amounts of vinegar, then boiled for 20 minutes. The mix was strained and the solids reboiled a third time, after which the combined filtrate liquors were boiled down to a manageable volume. The concentrated liquor was then evaporated and the residue was scraped up, rolled into balls, and coated in a mixture of ground stevia leaf and corn starch. The final yield was 60 grams of extract.




8:20 AM- Starched goo balls are ingested with copious amounts of water, 100 ml of strong ginger tea, and 25 mg of Diphenhydramine HCL.

9:15 AM- The nausea is obnoxiously present at this point and I feel like I need to take the biggest shit of my life. No psychological effects yet. Also I just took 100 mg of Caffeine.

9:28 AM- I noticed a corner.

9:30 AM- First threshold effects are manifesting themselves and after closing my eyes and then reopening them, the world is oscillating a bit in brightness.

OK, so I sort of lost the ability to wright after a little while. I pondered about life, the universe, and everything. I mulled over the idea of the "Superego". An emergent phenomenon stemming from our personal egos. The thing that allows us to sacrifice ourselves if it means the survival of our species. It was all quite elaborate and everything was an interesting concept. So many things were simply self-evident truths. In fact everything was self-evident. The only reason things happened is because they did. These were the kind of thoughts bouncing around my head. Then I talked with my sister for a while. She told me all about the life of Sappho(the Greek poetist). Of course my sister is an awful storyteller. Getting ahead of herself, leaving out important characters and plot points, and being generally confusing. So after a while it was like trying to understand a Doctor Who timeline after eating a firecracker(cannabis and peanut butter on a cracker). So eventually I got tired and then exasperated so I told her to leave. I then preceded to listen to Terry Riley(great trip music) for a while. At this point I am high as hell. Not tripping mind you, just high. Every part of my body was tense and I felt so much euphoria it hurt. All of my muscles were straining. I just couldn't relax. This feeling did not subside until I fell asleep at night. And to top it all off, all throughout this experience I had diarrhea.

1:05 PM- So at this point I'm at +++(Shulgin Scale). The thought "inexonerable truth" keeps echoing in my head. i realize that "inexonerable" is not a word, but it held so much power in my mind(I later discovered, via dictionary.com, that the word was actually "inexorable" ).

4:27 PM- I've realized that the nausea was never there. It was just a grinding of the internal organs. A euphorbic progression of event...cause...

8:30 PM- My folks came home and took me to TGI Friday. I ate. We talked. We laughed. The effects are teetering off, but it is still definitely active.





I thought I would have more to say about mescaline, but the best way to sum it up is, "Like an infinitely wound spring at the center of creation"(something i wrote on my wall in pencil). I've learned some interesting stuff about humanity on my journey. It was an incredibly intense experience. Definitely not something I am planning on repeating anytime soon. I was also hung over the next day. I am most definitely done with goo balls of any form. If and when I choose to go on another Mescaline Journey, I will use crystalline alkaloids and maybe I will add MAOI's and drop the caffeine. I experienced very few visuals. The journey was mostly emotional and intellectual. It felt similar to this one time when I ate 15 grams of Morning Glory Seeds except not as unpleasant.






p.s.- This is my first trip report so please feel free to criticize so that I might improve. I would love to hear what is wrong with it, how I can make it better, how I should approach my next Mescaline Journey, etc.